Housing: Fuel Oil and Liquefied Petroleum Gas
(asked on 9th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of domestic properties using (a) oil and (b) liquefied petroleum gas for heating by parliamentary constituency.
Survey data only exists at a national level for the number of properties that use oil and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for heating.
Country | Oil for heating | LPG for heating |
England1 | 762,000 dwellings (3.2 per cent) | 159,000 households (0.7 per cent) |
Scotland2 | 129,000 households (5 per cent) | 18,000 households (1 per cent) |
Wales3 | 135,000 dwellings (10 per cent) | Not available |
Northern Ireland4 | 526,000 dwellings (67.5 per cent) | Not available |
1 English Housing Survey, 2020 (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/energy-performance)
2 Scottish House Condition Survey, 2019 (https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-house-condition-survey-2019-key-findings/pages/4/)
3 Welsh Housing Conditions Survey, 2017/18 (https://gov.wales/welsh-housing-conditions-survey-energy-efficiency-dwellings-april-2017-march-2018)
4 Northern Ireland House Condition Survey, 2016 (https://www.communities-ni.gov.uk/publications/northern-ireland-housing-statistics-2020-21)
The 2011 Census includes estimates that classify occupied household spaces in England and Wales by the types of central heating present, including oil central heating, for 2010 parliamentary constituencies (https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/qs415uk)