Housing: Fuels

(asked on 8th March 2022) - 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 information or data his Department records and collates on households that are dependent on oil or LPG and other non-regulated fuels.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 16th March 2022

The principal source of information on households off the gas grid is the English Housing Survey and its equivalent surveys in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, which provide data on heating system types and other household characteristics:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/english-housing-survey

https://gov.wales/household-estimates

https://www.gov.scot/collections/scottish-house-condition-survey/

https://www.communities-ni.gov.uk/publications/northern-ireland-housing-statistics-2020-21.

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