Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people in (a) Hemsworth Parliamentary constituency and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber region were living in fuel poverty in each year since 2010 and up to and including 2020.
The table below shows the estimated number of households living in fuel poverty for the requested areas:
Year | Hemsworth Parliamentary constituency | Yorkshire and the Humber region |
2010 | n/a | 269,000 |
2011 | 4,100 | 271,000 |
2012 | 3,800 | 266,000 |
2013 | 3,600 | 244,000 |
2014 | 4,300 | 271,000 |
2015 | 4,300 | 282,000 |
2016 | 4,700 | 275,000 |
2017 | 4,200 | 244,000 |
2018 | 3,800 | 236,000 |
The latest available estimates are for 2018. Estimates for fuel poverty in 2010 have not been made at sub-regional level under the current Low Income High Costs metric.
Also note, estimates of fuel poverty at the sub-regional level are based on a small number households and are therefore subject to higher levels of uncertainty in particular when comparing changes over time.
The regional data in the table above was taken from https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fuel-poverty-trends-2020 table 4.
The parliamentary constituency data in the table above was taken from https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-sub-regional-statistics.
For example, the data for 2018 was found in table 5 of the following:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sub-regional-fuel-poverty-data-2020.