Fuel Poverty: Yorkshire and the Humber

(asked on 8th January 2021) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Anne-Marie Trevelyan Portrait
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 18th January 2021

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.

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