Asked by: Melanie Ward (Labour - Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what proportion of households spent more than 10 percent of their household income on energy bills in Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy constituency in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Miatta Fahnbulleh - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
DESNZ has responsibility for the measurement of fuel poverty in England. The latest
estimates of fuel poverty in England are available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-statistics
Fuel poverty is a devolved matter and different metrics of fuel poverty are used in the Devolved Administrations.