Even in our constituency, fuel poverty affects almost one in every nine households.
The 2012 Annual Report on Fuel Poverty Statistics shows that in the UK, fuel poverty fell from 5.5m households in 2009 to 4.75m in 2010.
The report shows that in 2010, 4,017 households in the Chesham & Amersham constituency were in fuel poverty, which means they spent more than 10% of their income in order to keep warm. That figure amounts to 11.2% of the total households.
The Liberal Democrat candidate in the Chesham Town Council by-election is Ruth Juett.
Ruth lives in Hivings Hill, Chesham.
As a local person she knows the Townsend Ward well.
She is a keen supporter of local community associations and is the chair of the Chiltern inter-faith goup Beyond Difference.
There are a number of other candidates - but only Ruth Juett and the Liberal Democrats can beat the Conservatives. A vote for any other candidate means the Tories win.
New figures today show that in our county 1,380 people have started an apprenticeship between August 2011 and January 2012.
This comes on top of 2,690 apprentices in our area last year, which is an increase of 63% on the previous year.
Commenting, Cllr Chris Spruytenburg said:
"Liberal Democrats are determined to tackle youth unemployment and get our economy back on track by rebalancing the economy away from the financial speculators gambling with other people's money in the City of London.
Chiltern Liberal Democrats remain opposed to HS2 on the grounds that the vast costs will outweigh any likely benefits. Here are two articles on the subject that we've noticed in the past few days.
First, by Simon Dance:
Did anyone see the C4 news the other night? An interesting article of the latest twist of the ghost train saga - apparently it's now recognised that Euston can't cope and the suggestion is that HS2 will terminate at Old Oak Common, where a new Canary Wharf will also be built. This is five miles from central London and would be accessed via Crossrail.
It is easy to be sceptical about any juxtaposition of the words "government" and "consultation". Too often 'consultation' means 'this is what we're going to do whether you like it or not, but we have to go through the motions'.
Let us hope against hope that the HS2 consultation is not a complete sham.