Membership of the forum includes representatives from:
Age Scotland
Association for the Conservation of Energy
Children's fuel Poverty Coalition
Citizens Advice Scotland
Consumer Focus Scotland
Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
Energy Action Scotland
Energy Saving Trust in Scotland
Friends of the Earth Scotland
Help the Aged
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
Ofgem ( as observers)
Poverty Alliance
Scottish Federation of Housing Associations
Scottish and Southern Energy
Scottish Gas
HECA Officers Network
Scottish Power
Shelter
The Scottish Fuel Poverty Forum's remit is to work together to ensure that so far as is reasonably practicable, no-one is living in fuel poverty by 2016. Specifically it will:
- monitor the implementation of the Energy Assistance Package and the Home Insulation Scheme;
- advise Ministers on further actions required; and
- liaise with the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group for England to develop an appropriate link that will ensure Scottish interests are fed into reserved policy areas.
On 16 July 2010 the forum published its First Annual Report which reviews the achievements of the first year of the Energy Assistance Package and the first phase of the Home Insulation Scheme and also considers some of the impacts on Fuel Poverty of Wider UK Government Policies.