The Scottish executive plans to spend £57m tackling fuel poverty and improving insulation in both private and social housing.
Central heating will be installed in 15,000 homes across Scotland by next April.

The plan includes £31.6m to install central heating in private sector homes, £3m to improve insulation and draught-proofing in council homes and £2.5m for registered social landlords to install new central heating.

Glasgow Housing Association will get £5.2m to fit central heating in some of its 80,000 homes.

Mary Mulligan, deputy communities minister for Scotland, said: "Fuel poverty affects many of our most vulnerable citizens.

"Free central heating has been one of our most successful and popular programmes. It has brought warmth and lowered fuel bills for thousands of people." Since the free central heating programme was launched in 2001, 20,000 households have had free heating fitted.

Previously, the programme only applied to senior citizens who had no central heating.

However, the executive is extending the scheme to cover people more than 80 years old who have "partial or inefficient heating".

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Housing Today