Fossil Fuels: Heating

(asked on 9th March 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 homes that are off the gas grid use fossil fuel heating systems in (a) Scotland, (b) Wales and (c) England as at 8 March 2021.


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

Using the latest available data, we estimate that there are currently around (i) 170,000, (ii) 160,000 and (iii) 1,080,000 off gas grid households using fossil fuel as their main heating systems in Scotland, Wales and England respectively.

Sources:

(i) Scottish house condition survey 2019 https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-house-condition-survey-2019-key-findings/pages/9/

(ii) Estimate is derived from household estimates, which may differ from number of homes. Household estimates: mid-2019 https://gov.wales/household-estimates-mid-2019#:~:text=Estimated%20households%20for%20Wales&text=Between%20mid%2D2018%20and%20mid,Wales%2C%20based%20on%20these%20estimates. , Welsh Housing Conditions Survey (energy efficiency of dwellings): April 2017 to March 2018 https://gov.wales/welsh-housing-conditions-survey-energy-efficiency-dwellings-april-2017-march-2018 . Estimate includes oil and solid fuel heated households only.

(iii) Analysis of English Household Survey , Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018) https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/english-housing-survey.

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