Commenting on the freeze of the winter fuel payments, Roger Williams, Welsh Liberal Democrat MP for Brecon & Radnorshire, said:
“The level of fuel poverty in Wales has doubled since 2004 and is set to hit one in four households in Wales this winter – 300,000 households in total. The Government’s ten year freeze on winter fuel payments is dangerous scrooge like behaviour.
“15,000 extra people died in Wales during the cold winter months, especially pensioners and yet the winter fuel allowance will not pay the average Welsh pensioners fuel bill from the beginning of advent until twelfth night.
“The Government must wake up and do far more to stop the spread of fuel poverty in Wales before it gets out of hand.”
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