People left without heating due to spending cuts, says fuel poverty group

Not a single gas boiler has been repaired under the energy company obligation since April, when its annual budget fell from £800m to £640m.No gas boilers have been repaired since April under a government scheme intended to combat fuel poverty, as a result of spending cuts that risk leaving poorer Britons unprotected from the cold at home, according to a fuel poverty pressure group.National Energy Action (NEA), which obtained the figures from the Department for Business, Energy and In