Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many homes in England and Wales were in fuel poverty in October 2021.

BEIS has responsibility for the measurement of fuel poverty in England. The latest estimates of fuel poverty in England are available:

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. The latest fuel poverty estimates by Welsh Government are available here:

https://www.gov.wales/fuel-poverty-estimates-wales.