Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what forecast his Department has made of the number of households in fuel poverty in each (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) local authority in (i) 2013 and (ii) 2014.

The estimated number and proportion of households which are fuel poor for 2011 and 2012 under the Low Income High Costs (LIHC) Indicator in each (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) local authority is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-sub-regional-statistics

The link above also provides sub-regional estimates of fuel poverty for the 10% indicator for the years 2010, 2011 and 2012. Estimates for 2006, 2008 and 2009 under the 10% indicator are available from the fuel poverty statistics archive page:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130109092117/http:/decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/statistics/fuelpov_stats/archive/archive.aspx