Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many low income households have received home insulation support in Ashfield constituency in each of the last five years.

The Department publishes the number of measures that have been installed in each parliamentary constituency through the Affordable Warmth obligation of the Energy Company Obligation in Table 1.11b of its quarterly Official Statistics release:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/green-deal-energy-company-obligation-eco-and-insulation-levels-in-great-britain-quarterly-report-to-march-2014.

Affordable Warmth figures include heating measures such as new boilers, as well as insulation.

Additional low income households are likely to be among the beneficiaries of the 518 insulation measures delivered in Ashfield in the same period under aspects of the Energy Company Obligation other than Affordable Warmth, but this figure cannot be broken down by income.

Figures for Warm Front are published on the Government website, and show that there were 884 households helped in 2009/10, 380 helped in 2010/11, 90 helped in 2011/12 and 106 helped in 2012/13 in the Ashfield constituency:

https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/helping-households-to-cut-their-energy-bills/supporting-pages/warm-front-scheme

Figures for the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target and Community Energy Savings Programme are not available at constituency level.