Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on how many households in (a) Barnsley, (b) Yorkshire and (c) the UK are without effective space heating or capacity to heat water.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy holds data on the physical characters of properties in England only, which has been collected and supplied by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). The table below shows the number of households and proportion of households that do not have an effective heating system in place for space heating.

An effective heating system here is considered as either a central heating system or storage heaters being fitted and present. Figures are not available for water heating as all heating systems are considered effective under this definition. Data is not available by Local Authority.

Figures are based on the data behind the fuel poverty statistics which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fuel-poverty-detailed-tables-2017