Scandalous in this day & age that UK elderly can't afford to heat their homes when they've worked all their liveshttps://twitter.com/PA/status/669472925263790080 …
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@julia_reid @oflynnmep that is a scandal but nothing in those stats suggests it was a factor. Winter vs summer death rate higher everywhere
@JuliaHB1 @oflynnmep Circa 47,660 of excess winter deaths in last 5 winters are due to people living in cold homes http://www.energybillrevolution.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ACE-and-EBR-factfile-2015-04-Chilled-to-Death-Updated.pdf …
@JuliaHB1 then again Julia energy prices have, you know, gone up a lot over the last few years which can't help.
@oflynnmep true but those statistics don't suggest that the cold homes are the issue. They may well be but those stats don't say that.
@JuliaHB1 A third of those deaths are caused by respiratory diseases which are often caused by cold, damp housing @julia_reid @oflynnmep
@Battsby People aren't dying in winter from old age any more than in summer@JuliaHB1 @julia_reid @oflynnmep
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