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 regional disparity in energy poverty; and what estimate his Department has made of the number of households living in energy poverty in Blackburn.

Fuel poverty figures by region can be found in Table 6 of the fuel poverty detailed tables: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fuel-poverty-detailed-tables-2018

The number of households living in fuel poverty in Blackburn in 2016 is estimated to be 6,400 (15.4 per cent).

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sub-regional-fuel-poverty-data-2018, Table 5