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Mayor says government is ‘missing in action’ during cost of living crisis South Yorkshire’s Mayor Oliver Coppard is calling on the government do more to help people as the cost of living crisis deepens. Visiting a retrofit scheme in Barnsley last week, the day Ofgem revealed how much energy bills will rise in the Autumn, Oliver Coppard says ministers are missing in action and letting down households already struggling to make ends meet. South Yorkshire is particularly vulnerable to increasing energy costs, given that almost 1 in 5 families in the region are
already in fuel poverty, meaning they already struggle to meet the costs of running and heating their homes. Retrofitting homes to make them more energy efficient can cut energy bills by a quarter. South Yorkshire’s Mayor Oliver Coppard said: “Rocketing energy prices and rising inflation are already inflicting real misery on many people here in South Yorkshire, even before Friday’s announcement. “We have some of the highest rates of fuel poverty in the country and workers here are paid
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almost £2 an hour less than the national average. Years of austerity and chronic underinvestment in our economy have left us less resilient to weather the shocks facing us this winter. “Meanwhile we have a government missing in action, whose ideas have run out, which has no plan to help people through the next few months and beyond. “I visited one of the schemes in Barnsley led by the council and it was encouraging to see the work going into helping struggling households
and tenants to make improvements to their homes and bring their energy bills down. These sorts of schemes should be scaled-up at pace across the country; not only to save people money, but to create greener, warmer homes and help us decarbonise our region.” Making a statement regarding the new Prime Minister South Yorkshire’s Mayor said: “Congratulations to Liz Truss MP on her appointment as our new Prime Minister. Many may not have voted for her, but we are all now relying
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on her ideas, energy, and judgement. “I’ll be writing to the new Prime Minister this week, extending the invitation I offered to her predecessor to visit South Yorkshire, and in turn reassure our communities that this government is committed to raising its focus beyond London and the Southeast. “Our communities across South Yorkshire need to feel confident that they can rely on the new Prime Minister and her government to improve the health and wealth of our region, even more so
at a time where all too many people in our region are faced with tough decisions about whether to heat their homes or put food on the table. “In this region we have the ambition to build an economy that’s innovative, sustainable and fair. I want to see the Truss Government step up to match our aspiration with the tools and resources we need to make South Yorkshire thrive. If not, the people of South Yorkshire will see this Prime Minister as it saw the last, with promises that are left undelivered.”
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