Fuel Poverty
(asked on 18th June 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many households in fuel poverty have a home that is rated (a) band C, (b) band D, (c) band E and (d) lower than band E for energy efficiency.
Fuel poverty is a devolved matter, each nation in the UK has its own fuel poverty definition, targets and policies to tackle the issue.
Between 2010 and 2015, the number of households in fuel poverty in England was estimated to be as follows:
SAP bands | Number of households (thousands) | |||||
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
A/B/C | * | 68 | 104 | 104 | 135 | 151 |
D | 694 | 772 | 893 | 1055 | 1199 | 1337 |
E | 1227 | 1146 | 1015 | 875 | 758 | 736 |
F and G | 531 | 447 | 348 | 313 | 287 | 278 |
* Figures have been suppressed due to small sample size
Source: BEIS data https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fuel-poverty-trends-2017