The number of Dundee households living in fuel poverty has risen.
New figures released by the city council show 29% of households had to spend at least one tenth of their income on heating during 2012-13, compared to 26% the previous year.
Housing director Elaine Zwirlein said: “Dundee City Council is implementing a number of initiatives to reduce fuel poverty.
“Additional resources have been secured for the Dundee Energy Efficiency Advice Project (DEEAP) to increase the numbers of householders who can benefit from energy and benefits advice.
“DEEAP is working closely with colleagues in finance to ensure that those who require assistance under the Scottish Welfare Fund receive credits to their meters so that they have electricity and gas supplies.
“Housing has completed community energy savings projects to eight multistorey blocks in Dallfield and Lochee and is implementing a energy company obligation scheme to Adamsons and Elders Courts and adjacent low-rise properties in Kirk Street. The council will start to implement Home Energy Efficiency Scotland Schemes from 2013-14.”
A report she has drawn up for councillors added that the number of houses in the city registered for the warm house discount stood at 1,106 compared with 769 previously.
The discount is a government programme of support aimed at households that are living in, or are at risk of, fuel poverty.
Ms Zwirlein said the increase in fuel poverty was one of a small number of key performance indicators for the housing department to get worse over the past year.
The others included a decline in the percentage of repairs carried out on time and a drop in the number of council or housing association homes built.
Other measures were maintained or surpassed, including several related to energy efficiency. The number of council properties meeting the Scottish housing quality standard energy ratings increased to 91% from 77% in 2012.
Some 81% of homes met the full requirements of the standard, up from 56%. Staff carried out 3,945 energy advice visits, and there was a slight rise in the amount of extra benefit people were helped to claim.
The number of households assessed as homeless fell to 1,164 from 1,247 previously. The loss in rent due to unoccupied properties fell from 2.1% to 1.8% and the amount of rent in arrears fell slightly from 10% to 9.9%.
The proportion of tenants who gave up their tenancies still owing rent dropped from 49.6% to 48.3%.