Membership
Information about the Committee's members and meetings.
Members
The Committee on Fuel Poverty (CFP) consists of a Chair and 5 members who are appointed for 3 years.
Appointments are made in accordance with the requirements of the Governance Code for Public Appointments.
Caroline Flint (Chair)
Previously Labour MP for Don Valley (1997 to 2019), Caroline represented a former mining constituency with areas of acute deprivation and a growing low-income private rented sector.
For 6 years Caroline was a minister within 5 government departments, developing legislation and leading major policy initiatives, before serving in the Shadow Cabinet from 2010 to 2015. During her significant political career, she led the Smoke Free England legislation, led Opposition strategy on energy market reform; has contributed to multiple All-Party Parliamentary Groups and committees; most recently, the Commons Public Accounts Committee and Intelligence and Security Committee.
Caroline was appointed chair of Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust in 2021. She also advises on public sector reform, the growth of UK manufacturing and getting to net zero. Caroline makes regular appearances on TV and radio concerning the news and current affairs.
Caroline is passionate about service improvement and community empowerment and has been a regular community volunteer for over decade, supporting the restoration of a lake and woodland, and most recently, has been a vaccination centre volunteer. She lives in Doncaster.
Appointed: 31 January 2022
Terms ends: 31 January 2025
Liz Bisset
As a previous member of the CFP (1 December 2017 to 30 September 2021), Liz oversaw the research on the impact of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards in the Private Rented Sector.
Liz was Vice-Chair of a developing Housing Association and is actively engaged in debates around the timing and effectiveness of technological developments to reduce carbon emissions and address fuel poverty. She is the Director of a Housing and Leadership consultancy providing strategic analysis and leadership support to local authorities.
Liz previously worked as Executive Director at Cambridge City Council where she was responsible for delivering front line public services and wider community and stakeholder engagement, including creating an in-house housing development function that went on to deliver low carbon and zero carbon affordable homes within Cambridge.
Appointed: 3 May 2022
Terms ends: 3 May 2025
Belinda Littleton
Belinda works for National Grid and is currently Head of Asset Management, Light Current, Electricity Transmission. Belinda’s work at National Grid has included:
- leading a team of specialists to deliver appropriate system upgrades that provide value to the consumer during the clean energy transition
- focusing on enabling a net zero future that doesn’t leave anyone behind
- setting out the National Grid’s strategic perspective on the decarbonisation of transport
Previously working as an economist at Ofgem, Belinda looked at the impact of the smart meter rollout on vulnerable customers.
Belinda has also previously worked at PwC. During this time she worked with the former Department of Energy and Climate Change to develop their Household Energy Efficiency Strategy considering the carbon reduction contribution that could be made by households.
Belinda is passionate about designing inclusivity into future policy that delivers against net zero commitments within the UK.
Appointed: 3 May 2022
Terms ends: 3 May 2025
Gordon McGregor
Gordon has worked for over 3 decades in the energy and utilities sector. He has a depth of experience working in retail, distribution, generation and corporate management. Most recently, he has helped lead a number of highly innovative companies that have a strong focus on energy efficiency, renewables and clean technology.
Gordon was a founding member of the Energy Retail Association Taskforce on Fuel Poverty, working on how energy regulation and industry structures could improve energy efficiency and affordability.
Throughout his career, he has helped design energy efficiency programmes, developed affordable payment approaches, created social action initiatives and has helped design tariffs that help priority and vulnerable customers. He has also been involved in market design for wholesale markets and managed the implementation of regulations to support new renewable targets. As a director of a vertically integrated utility, he helped lead the transition from a largely fossil fuel based portfolio towards a lower carbon alternative.
Gordon currently sits on the Natural Environmental Research Council at UK Research and Innovation, is Chair, of the WWF Scotland Advisory Board, and is a member of the Advisory Board for the University of Edinburgh Ocean Leaders Programme. Gordon is commencing the role of Chief Sustainability Officer at Sweco UK in July, 2022.
Appointed: 17 May 2022
Terms ends: 17 May 2025
Anthony Pygram
Anthony was the Director of Conduct and Enforcement at Ofgem (where he oversaw the development of Ofgem’s Consumer Vulnerability Strategy). He was subsequently a specialist adviser to the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee for its Ofgem and net zero inquiry. Anthony’s focus was on the consumer and structural issues around the transition to net zero, including the impacts of paying for the transition primarily through charges to billpayers.
Anthony is a Lay Member, and Alternate Chair, of the Regulatory Board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, the independent Chair of the Code Change Committee for the non-household water market, and will soon be a senior manager at the Payment Systems Regulator.
Appointed: 3 May 2022
Terms ends: 3 May 2025
Anuradha Singh
Anu is a board level local government and health professional. She has been a statutory Director of Social Services; and is passionate about service improvement and community empowerment. She has led on new relationships with communities for County Councils, City Councils and a London Metropolitan Borough Council.
Anu is Vice Chair of the Whittington Health Integrated Care Trust in north London. She was Director of Patient & Public Participation and Insight for NHS England. She took the lead for the NHS in ensuring that the voice of patients, service users, carers and the public is at the heart of the way NHS works. She was also responsible for Equalities and Health Inequalities, Person Centred Care, and the national relationship with the Voluntary and Community Sector.
In January 2020, Anu was appointed non-executive director to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), which is responsible for investigating complaints about poor or unfair services as a result of actions by a government department, body or the NHS.
Appointed: 1 May 2019
Reappointed: 30 April 2025 (for a 2nd term)