Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households are forecast to be lifted from fuel poverty under the energy company obligation in each year between 2013 and 2017.

The Department's latest assessment of the impact of the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) on fuel poverty is set out in “The Future of the Energy Company Obligation: Assessment of Impacts” published in March 2014. This is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/286926/The_Future_of_the_Energy_Company_Obligation_Assessment_of_Impacts.pdf