Two million more to get £150 winter fuel discount

Around 2 million more people will receive an automatic discount on their energy bills this winter as Labour confirms the expansion of an annual scheme.

- ALBERT TOTH

Around 6 million people in total will now receive the Warm Home Discount, taking £150 directly off their energy bills.

This includes 900,000 families with children and 1.8 million households in fuel poverty, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) said.

The government's Warm Home Discount scheme was introduced in 2011 and delivers a £150 cut to domestic energy bills for qualifying recipients. The one-off discount is applied automatically to an energy bill between October and March.