Membership
Information about the Committee on Fuel Poverty'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
Extended: 31 January 2025
Terms ends: 31 January 2028
Ross Armstrong
Ross Armstrong is the Chief Executive of Warmworks. Having led the organisation since its founding in 2015, he and the Warmworks team have ensured that more than 50,000 households are warmer, happier and healthier by providing end-to-end assessment, installation and quality inspections of a wide range of heating, insulation and energy efficiency improvements. With more than 20 years’ experience of managing fuel poverty programmes across the UK within both the public and private sector, Ross understands the lived experience of the most vulnerable fuel poor homes and families and will bring his knowledge and expertise on how policy is delivered on the ground to the Committee.
Appointed: 16 February 2026
Terms ends: 15 February 2029
Professor Richard Fitton
Professor Richard Fitton (PhD, FRICS) is Technical Director of the Energy House 2.0 project, a world-leading building physics test laboratory at the University of Salford. A Chartered Building Surveyor and Fellow of the RICS, he holds a PhD in Building Physics and has authored over 80 publications on building energy performance and measurement. He leads an international task group developing standards for energy performance assessment. He is Chair of the British Standard for Retrofit Assessment and serves on the SAP Scientific Integrity Group at BRE, which oversees the UK’s domestic energy model. He is also a panel member of the RICS Professional Group for residential property and leads an International Energy Agency Annex on the use of smart meter data to provide energy efficiency metrics in dwellings.
Appointed: 16 February 2026
Terms ends: 15 February 2029
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
Extended: 3 May 2025
Terms ends: 3 May 2028
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
Extended: 17 May 2025
Terms ends: 17 May 2027
Anthony Pygram
Anthony has over 20 years’ experience in regulation, covering energy, water, competition, payment systems, legal services and accountancy.
As a senior executive, he spent 9 years at the energy regulator Ofgem, and has also worked in senior roles at the Competition Commission (now part of the Competition and Markets Authority) and the Payment Systems Regulator.
As a Non-Executive, Anthony is a Board member of the Utility Regulator of Northern Ireland, and of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (where he also hears cases as a panel member). He chairs committees making recommendations to regulators on proposed changes to codes governing aspects of the GB electricity market, and to codes governing operation of the non-household water market for England and Wales. He is also a member of the Retrofit System Reform Advisory Panel.
Appointed: 3 May 2022
Extended: 3 May 2025
Terms ends: 3 May 2028