Brown unveils £910m fuel measures
Gordon Brown announces energy-saving measures
Gordon Brown has agreed a £910m package of measures with the big energy companies aimed at helping people with soaring gas and electricity bills.
It includes half price insulation for all households and a freeze on this year's bills for the poorest families.
Pensioners and unemployed people with young children will get an extra £16.50 a week if there is a severe winter.
But the measures were attacked as "ridiculous" by the unions, who want a windfall tax on the energy giants.
The package includes:
- Free cavity wall and loft insulation for pensioners and poor households
- 50% off cost of insulation for all households
- Freeze on this year's bills for half a million poor consumers
- Partial reversal of cut to warm front programme giving free central heating to poorest pensioners
- Cold weather payments to go up from £8.50 a week to £25 a week for pensioners, disabled people and unemployed families with children under five - if temperatures drop below zero for seven consecutive days
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