The Scottish Fuel Poverty Strategic Working Group report makes several recommendations to reduce fuel poverty, including making homes more energy efficient by upgrading them to an EPC C rating.
The Scottish Conservatives pledged in their manifesto to invest around £1 billion by 2020/21 to ensure that all homes met the EPC C rating or above by the end of the next decade.
And with a third of households now living in fuel poverty they have called on the Scottish Government to take action to help people properly heat their homes.
Scottish Conservative MSP for Glasgow, Annie Wells said:
“This report once again highlights that the Scottish Government could be doing a lot more to help tackle fuel poverty in Scotland.
“Having a warm home during winter is something that every Scot should be able to afford, but yet we still have a huge problem with fuel poverty.
“It’s simply not good enough that a third of households can’t afford to heat their homes properly, and it’s time that the Scottish Government took real action.
"The Fuel Poverty group backs up our own call for major new investment to ensure all homes are warm homes.
“Our manifesto called for £1 billion by 2021 to make homes energy efficient - and the Scottish Government should now get on with it."