Energy: Housing

(asked on 9th October 2017) - 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 fuel-poor homes which are insulated below Energy Performance Certificate Band C in each year since 2010; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
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Claire Perry
This question was answered on 17th October 2017

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.

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