APPENDIX 3
Scottish rural fuel poverty task force
Catalogue of publications and written submissions
Sector
Meeting 1
20 August
2015
Meeting 2
22 September
2015
Inaugural Meeting of Task Force
Terms of Remit and members, Schedule of meetings, Initial Task Force Discussion paper
Terms of remit
Schedule of meetings
Discussion paper
Consumer Behaviour and Energy Costs
Author
Scottish
Government
Circulated
August 2015
D Mackay,
LSHA
September
2015
Citizens Advice
Scotland
September
2015
Development
Trust
Association
M Currie, D
Mackay, S
Wilson
S Aberdein
2015
Cost of energy and restrictive provider issues; Consumer Behaviour and Confidence;
Scottish Highlands and Islands-Heating Oil and Electricity surcharges and Response to the
CMA energy market investigation
Cost Of Energy/Restrictive Provider Issue
Consumer Behaviour & Confidence
Heating Oil
Energy Market Investigation
Meeting 2
22 September
2015
Meeting 2
22 September
2015
Meeting 3
20 October
2015
Consumer Behaviour and Energy Costs
CAS Off Gas studies and oil club link
off-gas case studies
Oil Club website (http://www.oil-club.co.uk/home)
Link to Development Trusts Association Scotland Oil buying website
http://dtasoilbuying.org.uk/
Supply Chain and Skills, Housing Stock, Change and Statistics
Issues around Hard to heat/Hard to treat properties; PAS2030 and ECO; Feedback from
PAS2030 Orkney Workshop; SIMD Western Isles
Issues with installing measures in hard to treat properties
Issues around PAS2030 and ECO compliance
Short feedback report from Orkney contractors – PAS2030 workshop
1
October 2015
Template for submission of papers – one page maximum
Meeting 4
9 December
2015
Economic, Social and Health Benefits
Additional home energy costs for off-gas grid households; Western Isles Financial
Inclusion pilot scheme; Heating Options in off gas grid areas – Costs and Carbon, Fuel
Poverty-Health Linkages
Additional home energy cost for households not on the gas grid
Scottish Government – Linkages between Fuel Poverty and Health
Western Isles Financial Inclusion Pilot
Heating options in off gas areas (their cost and carbon)
Meeting 5
23 February
2016
Community Initiatives and the resources currently and potentially available to
support rural fuel poverty solutions
Moving to a smarter market; Update on HES evaluation of Craigmillar GP pilot referral
project; Referral Mechanisms – Potential Solutions; Details of Energycarer proposal
Potential solutions – referral mechanisms
Moving to a smarter market
A Nicolson, M
Maclean,
Changeworks
Scottish
Government
December
2015
OFGEM
Home Energy
Scotland
Scottish
Government
D Mackay
February
2016
Energy Action
Scotland
April 2016
Update - craigmillar medical group and home energy scotland south east pilot
Background and introduction
Meeting 6
28 April 2016
Additional Task Force meeting
RdSAP for rural and remote areas; Private Rented Sector/REEPS
Meeting 8
31 August
2016
Modelling Energy Usage and the Assessment of Energy Efficiency in the Rural and
Remote Built Environments
Fuel Poverty/Energy Efficiency in the Rural Private Rented Sector
Scottish Land &
Estates
Task Force Report
Fuel Poverty Partnerships & Contribution of the Third Sector in tackling fuel poverty
T Lawrie
SCARF
September
2016
Professor David
Sigsworth, OBE
August 2015
Fuel Poverty Partnerships
The positive contribution of the third sector in tackling fuel poverty and challenges
ahead
Research and Publications
Fuel Poverty
Scottish Fuel Poverty Forum – Chair’s report
Report from David Sigsworth
2
Fuel Poverty
EAS Stay Warm – Stay Well
Energy Action
Scotland
August 2015
EST – Smart metering Evaluation report and update
Energy Saving
Trust
August &
September
2015
OFGEM
September
2015
led by National
Grid
October 2015
Scottish Fuel
Poverty Forum
Citizens Advice
Scotland
October 2015
Final Report
Follow-up Report
Energy
Efficiency
Smart Metering Advice Project (SMAP)
Energy
Prices
Off gas grid
Publications on Smart meter prepayment, debt and disconnection and Market monitoring
annual report showing how suppliers managed debt and disconnection
Smart Prepayment in a Smarter Market”,
Domestic Retail Market Review evaluation survey: 2015 results
Consumer engagement with the energy market: Tracking survey.
Launch of national Non Gas Grid database – details and links provided
www.nongasmap.org.uk
Industry Working Group – subgroup of UK Govt’s FP Action Group,
Fuel Poverty
Fuel Poverty Definition research
http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0045/00454851.pdf
CAS “Energy Advice in detail” publications
Fuel Poverty
Advice in Detail: Energy 2013/14
(http://www.cas.org.uk/system/files/publications/advice_in_detail_energy_201314_digital.pdf). Contains the 2013/14 report in full.
Advice in Detail: Energy 2014/15
(http://www.cas.org.uk/system/files/publications/advice_in_detail_energy_201415_digital.pdf). Contains that 2014/15 report in full.

Advice in Detail: Energy Briefing
(http://www.cas.org.uk/system/files/publications/energy_advice_in_detail_briefing.p
df). Contains key insights from both reports.
Our Energy Advice: An Overview
3
October 2015
Energy
Prices/Fuel
Poverty
(http://www.cas.org.uk/system/files/publications/cas_energy_advice_stats.pdfOverv
iew on energy advice statistics and key policy issues brought to the Citizens Advice
Service in Scotland.
OFGEM Updates on Consumer viability strategy and proposals to promote a smarter
energy system
OFGEM
October 2015
OFGEM
October 2015
Energy Saving
Trust
Changeworks
October 2015
CALOR
EAS
October 2015
November
2015
January 2016
Consumer Vulnerability Progress Report
Fuel Poor Network Extension Scheme
Making the electricity system more flexible and delivering the benefits for consumers
Quicker and more efficient connections
Cost of
energy
Supply Chain
and Skills
Fuel Poverty
Fuel Poverty
Report on the regional differences in the way costs for transporting energy is recovered
from bills
https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/regional-differences-network-charges
EST – Supply chain of remote rural and Island area analysis
Supply chain analysis of remote rural and island areas
Changeworks – methodology for creating fuel poverty maps
Fuel Poverty Mapping Methodology
Calor – Fuel poverty map of off gas grid areas
Free in England and Scotland
October 2015
EAS – Fuel Poverty Map
Fuel Poverty Map of Scotland
Housing
Stock/Energy
Efficiency
REEPS Research Publication
http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2015/11/4536/0
Fuel
Poverty/Stats
Scottish House Condition Survey Report 2014
http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0049/00490947.pdf
Scottish
Government –
Communities
Analytical
Services
Scottish
Government t
Fuel Poverty
Report to the First Minister - Shifting the Curve
Independent Advisor on Poverty and Inequality
Scottish
Government
4
December
2015
http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0049/00492430.pdf
Fuel Poverty
Publication
Energy in Scotland 2016
http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0049/00493362.pdf
Scottish
Government
January 2016
Fuel Poverty
Understanding the benefits of fuel poverty interventions: A pragmatic economic evaluation
from Greater Manchester
http://www.wessexphnetwork.org.uk/media/13469/cpd-02-feb-2014-angela-mawle.pdf
UK Public
Health
Association
2011
January 2016
Changeworks
February
2016
Dept of
Agriculture and
Rural
Development
March 2016
Link to UKPA website
http://dtasoilbuying.org.uk/
Renewable
Energy
Initiatives
Fuel Poverty
Changeworks research on How tenants use solar panels
http://www.changeworks.org.uk/sites/default/files/Case_Study_Expert_research_resources
_for_long_term_impact.pdf
Publication
Tackling Rural Poverty and Social Isolation – A new framework
https://www.dardni.gov.uk/articles/tackling-rural-poverty-social-isolation-new-framework
Energy
Efficiency
Measures
Publications
Energy Efficiency meaures installed in Scotland under ECO1 1 Jan 2013- 31 March 2015
http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2016/03/5347
Statistics
HEEPS: Summary delivery report 2014/15
http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2016/03/9421
Funding
streams to
EESSH – Table of Relevant funding sources
5
Northern Ireland
Scottish
Government
Scottish
Government
March 2016
April 2016
support rural
fuel poverty
solutions
Energy
Efficiency
EESSH - table of relevant funding sources
Energy and Climate Change Committee – Oral Evidence – Home Energy Efficiency and
Demand Reduction –
DECC
April 2016
DECC
April 2016
EU Commission
May 2016
http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/energ
y-and-climate-change-committee/home-energy-efficiency-and-demandreduction/oral/27049.html
Fuel Poverty
Fuel Poverty
Health and Affordable Warmth Evaluation Toolkit
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/affordable-warmth-and-health-impactevaluation-toolkit
EU Commission – Energy Poverty Report
https://ec.europa.eu/energy/sites/ener/files/documents/Selecting%20Indicators%20to%20
Measure%20Energy%20Poverty.pdf
https://ec.europa.eu/energy/sites/ener/files/documents/Annex%201%20Methodology%20a
nd%20Technical%20Report.pdf
Energy
Prices
CMA – Energy Market Reforms – Report
https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/energy-market-investigation
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/energy-market-investigation-overview
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/energy-market-investigation-information-forconsumers
Competition and
Markets
Authority
June 2016
Energy
Efficiency
Citizens Advice Scotland
Delivering Energy Efficiency to off-gas rural Scotland
http://www.cas.org.uk/system/files/publications/hot_off_the_grid_delivering_energy_efficie
ncy_to_rural_off-gas_scotland_final.pdf
Citizens Advice
Scotland
June 2016
6
Review of energy efficiency and fuel poverty schemes in Scotland
http://www.cas.org.uk/system/files/publications/taking_the_temperature__a_review_of_energy_efficiency_and_fuel_poverty_schemes_in_scotland.pdf
Cost of
energy
Health
impacts
Ofgem – Report on regional differences in network charges
https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/regional-differences-network-charges
OFGEM
October 2016
Appendix 4 of Task Force Final Report – Health Impacts research
Task Force
September
2016
OFGEM
December
2015
The Energycarer Initiative – A detailed proposal
Health, Energy Efficiency & Affordable Warmth
CONSULTATIONS
Fuel Poverty
and
Consumers
Ofgem Proposals to improve outcome for prepayment customers
https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/docs/final_consultation_ppm.pdf
(Closed 25 February 2016)
Ofgem reviews regulatory framework to boost innovation and enhance consumer
protection
https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/future-retail-market-regulation
(Closed March 2016)
Insights paper on households with electric and other non-gas heating
insights paper on households with electric and other non-gas heating.
Housing
Standards
Design of the Scottish Household Survey (including SHCS)
https://consult.scotland.gov.uk/scottish-household-survey/consultation-on-2017-survey.
Scottish
Government
March 2016
Fuel Poverty
and
Consumers
Ofgem Consultations
Priority Services Register – June 2016 (Closed 15 July)
https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/priority-services-register-finalproposals-review-decision
OFGEM
July 2016
7
E – Serve – June 2016 (Closed 25 August)
https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/e-serve-supplier-performance-reportconsultation
Fuel Poverty
and
Consumers
Ofgem – Allocation of voluntary redress payments
https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/allocation-voluntary-redresspayments-context-enforcement-cases
OFGEM
July 2016
Energy
Prices
Ofgem - Proposals to cap prepayment meter warrant charges for indebted customers
Ofgem has published proposals to cap charges
STATISTICS
OFGEM
September
2016
ECO measures installed by Local Authority
Scottish
Government
October 2015
Scottish
Government
April 2016
Energy
Efficiency
statistics
Fuel Poverty
Cost of
energy and
Consumer
Engagement
Scottish Rural Fuel Poverty Task Force
Statistics
Experimental stats on the NEED framework for Scotland, 2013
http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Business/Energy/NEED
SUBMISSIONS RECEIVED
Rural Fuel Poverty
October 2015
Scottish Task Force on Rural Fuel Povert
Energy Tariff offerings, Access to information and Support services
Cost of
energy
Consumer
Engagement
Energy
Scottish Gas
Scottish Power
September
2015
CALOR
October 2015
Cost Of Energy/Restrictive Provider Submission
Energy Efficiency Schemes in rural off-gas grid areas
8
Efficiency
Fuel Poverty
Submission to Rural Fuel Poverty Task Force – Meeting 3 Statistics and Housing
Hard to Heat_Hard to Treat
Rural Fuel Poverty
Welfare Powers and Scotland Bill
CALOR
Scotland
February
2016
Rural fuel poverty – Welfare Powers & Scotland Bill
Contributions
Written Submissions received in response to issue of template
to the Task
Force
Submission from Scottish Gas
Scottish Rural Fuel Poverty Task Force
Short Description of issue
Evidence Submission
9
FEC – Home
Energy
Solutions
Caithness
Renewables
Scottish Gas
Dr Keith Baker
Ailsa Gray
September
2015
October 2015
March 2016
July 2016
Fuel Poverty
Fuel Poverty
SOCIAL MEDIA/PRESS
Scottish Govt – Task Force website link
http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Built-Environment/Housing/warmhomes/fuelpoverty/fuelpoverty-task-force
Fairer Scotland Blog
http://fairer.scot/2015/10/08/the-rural-fuel-poverty-task-force/
Press release – New Fuel Poverty Strategic Working Group
Fuel Poverty
Fuel Poverty
New strategic working group to help tackle fuel poverty
Press release – Affordable Warmth Partnership Project Orkney
http://www.thaworkney.co.uk/
Fuel Poverty
MAPS
Postcodes with and without a Gas Supply
Map
10
Scottish
Government
October 2015
Scottish
Government
October 2015
Scottish
Government
THAW Orkney
September
2015
October 2015
Scottish
Government
June 2016