Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 6 November 2014, Official Report, column 959, on energy bills, what the evidential basis was for the statement that fuel poverty is falling.

The latest National Statistics on fuel poverty, published in June 2014, are for 2012. They show that between 2010 and 2012, fuel poverty fell by nearly 8%. The report is available here:

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