Poor families in the UK will need more help to pay for heating their homes as energy bills rise, government advisors have warned.

A report by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) said subsidies for clean energy will add an extra 36p per day onto household bills by 2030. Many poor households will also need more support with insulation and clean heating, the report added. Energy-intensive industries will need continued help too, the CCC said. A government spokesman said that investing in energy efficiency is the best way to reduce long term bills - and that thanks to government policies, bills are an estimated £90 lower this year than they would otherwise have been. But the CCC said the chancellor, George Osborne, had cut total investment in energy efficiency from £1.4bn to £800m.

Insulation costs
Ed Matthew, a spokesman for the fuel poverty campaign The Energy Bill Revolution, which strongly supports the CCC report, told BBC News: "The situation is crazy. Insulation offers by far better value for money than road-building, yet we have just seen £100bn announced for infrastructure without a penny for insulation.....Read more here