Campaigners tell MPs more than 1m households missed out on government support for bills
The number of excess winter deaths in Great Britain caused by living in a cold, damp home climbed by about a third last winter after more than 1 million vulnerable households missed out on government energy bill support, MPs have heard.
Fuel poverty campaigners told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday that despite relatively mild weather, the number of the excess winter deaths had climbed to 4,706, up from 3,186 a year earlier, as a result of the energy cost crisis.
