Fuel Poverty: North West

(asked on 20th November 2014) - View Source

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of households in fuel poverty in (a) Pendle constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West.


Answered by
Amber Rudd Portrait
Amber Rudd
This question was answered on 1st December 2014

The estimated number and proportion of households which are fuel poor in 2012 under the Low Income High Costs (LIHC) Indicator in (a) Pendle constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) the north west are shown in the table below.

Estimated number of fuel poor households

Proportion of fuel poor households (%)

Pendle constituency

5,552

15.0

Lancashire

52,840

10.8

North west

335,344

11.3

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