Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Annual Energy Statement of 6 November 2014, Official Report, column 982, what the evidential basis was for the statement that fuel poverty in England has fallen by 100,000 since 2010.

The latest National Statistics on fuel poverty, published in June 2014, showed that, under the official Low Income High Costs indicator, fuel poverty affected 2.28 million households in England. In 2010, this figure stood at 2.47 million households. This is, in fact, a reduction of nearly 200,000 households.