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 fuel-poor homes which are insulated below Energy Performance Certificate Band C in each year since 2010; and if he will make a statement.
The number of fuel poor households which have an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) below Band C can be seen in the table below:
| Band F/G | Band E | Band D | Total Below Band C | ||||
| Number of fuel poor households (000’s) | Proportion of all in this Band that are fuel poor (%) | Number of fuel poor households (000’s) | Proportion of all in this Band that are fuel poor (%) | Number of fuel poor households (000’s) | Proportion of all in this Band that are fuel poor (%) | Number of fuel poor households (000’s) | Proportion of all in this Band that are fuel poor (%) |
2010 | 531 | 25 | 1,227 | 20 | 694 | 7 | 2,452 | 13 |
2011 | 447 | 24 | 1,146 | 20 | 772 | 7 | 2,365 | 13 |
2012 | 348 | 23 | 1,015 | 20 | 893 | 8 | 2,256 | 13 |
2013 | 313 | 23 | 875 | 20 | 1,055 | 9 | 2,243 | 13 |
2014 | 287 | 24 | 758 | 20 | 1,199 | 10 | 2,244 | 13 |
2015 | 278 | 27 | 736 | 20 | 1,337 | 12 | 2,351 | 15 |
The most recent official statistics are for the year 2015. The data above is from the fuel poverty national statistics publication which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fuel-poverty-trends-2017
Since April 2017, the Energy Company Obligation has been 70% focussed on low income households. The scheme will improve the energy efficiency of over 300,000 homes per year. Combined with rebates of £140 for over 2 million low income households through the Warm Home Discount, this will be over £770m of support in 2017/18.