Lib Dem MP David Heath is currently promoting the Fuel Poverty Bill, which is making its way slowly through Parliament.

 If David’s bill is made law,  it would enact measures to end the scandal of cold homes, cut costs to the health service and generate tens of thousands of jobs. The Bill has strong cross party support including from former Labour Ministers. But not yet from local Lewisham Deptford MP, Joan Ruddock.

▪ In Lewisham alone nearly 3,000 older people have to choose between eating and heating.

▪ In Lewisham there will probably be 800 ‘excess winter deaths’ in the next decade.

▪ Fuel poverty costs the health service £1.9 billion every year: averaged out that’s nearly £9 million wasted in Lewisham.

So on Thursday 28th May, there’s a public meeting here in Lewisham to dicuss the Bill.  It’s from 7pm to 9pm at St Andrew’s United Reformed Church, corner of Brockley Road and Wickham Road, Lewisham, SE4 2SA.

Joan Ruddock MP has been invited.  Other speakers include Cllr Chris Maines, leader of the Lib Dem Group on the Council, Dareen Johnson from the Green Party, and reps from various organisations like Age Concern and Friends of the Earth.  Download the flyer here.