Fuel Poverty: West Midlands
(asked on 27th February 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 recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of fuel poverty in (a) Coventry and (b) the West Midlands.
The table below shows the number and proportion of households living in fuel poverty in Coventry and the West Midlands from 2008 to the latest data available (2015).
Year | West Midlands | Coventry | ||
| Fuel Poor Households | Percent Fuel Poor | Fuel Poor Households | Percent Fuel Poor |
2008 | 403,000 | 18% | - | - |
2009 | 346,000 | 15% | - | - |
2010 | 306,000 | 14% | - | - |
2011 | 323,000 | 14% | 20,000 | 16% |
2012 | 340,200 | 15.2% | 20,500 | 16.3% |
2013 | 320,000 | 13.9% | 20,600 | 15.9% |
2014 | 279,700 | 12.1% | 16,800 | 13.0% |
2015 | 316,000 | 13.5% | 18,900 | 14.4% |
Household figures have been rounded to the nearest 100.
We do not have data available for Coventry before 2011 due to our fuel poverty methodology change from the 10% measure to Low Income High Cost.
The latest sub-regional fuel poverty statistics can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-sub-regional-statistics