Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate she has made of the number of homes in Hamilton and Clyde Valley constituency dependent on heating oil and LPG.

The Government has not made an estimate. According to the Scottish Census data, 5.1% of all households in Scotland rely on heating oil as their primary source of central.

Heating policy is devolved to the Scottish Government. The Government allocated £53 million of financial support across the nations of the UK to support those on low income with the rising cost of heating oil and LPG. Government is regulating the heat oil sector for the first time

This includes £4.6 million allocated to the Scottish Government.