Fuel Poverty: Merseyside
(asked on 1st October 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many households in (a) Wallasey constituency, (b) Wirral and (c) Merseyside are living in fuel poverty.
The number of households living in fuel poverty in 2017 in Wallasey constituency, Wirral and Merseyside can be found in the table below.
Estimated number of households living in Fuel poverty, 2017
| Wallasey Constituency | Wirral (Local Authority) | Merseyside[1] |
Estimated number of households in fuel poverty | 6,300 | 19,900 | 92,700 |
Proportion of households in fuel poverty (%) | 15.3 | 13.5 | 14.7 |
Household figures have been rounded to the nearest 100.
The latest sub-regional statistics can be found here : https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sub-regional-fuel-poverty-data-2019, Table 2, Table 4 and Table 5
[1] Figures for Merseyside County has been derived from the 5 Metropolitan districts – Liverpool, Knowsley, St. Helens, Sefton and Wirral.