Fuel Poverty: Rural Areas

(asked on 17th January 2018) - 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 assessment his Department has made of the level of fuel poverty of households which are off the gas grid.


Answered by
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Claire Perry
This question was answered on 23rd January 2018

In 2015, households in England off the gas grid were more likely to be in fuel poverty (15.2%) compared to those on the gas grid (10.4%) and the depth of their fuel poverty was more severe - households off the gas grid had an average fuel poverty gap of £607 compared to £296 for those that were on the gas grid.

Households off the gas grid made up 18.5 per cent of the total number of fuel poor households, whereas, households on the gas grid made up 81.5 per cent.

The data in the attached document is from Table 10 of our fuel poverty detailed tables which can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fuel-poverty-detailed-tables-2017

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