Energy Supply: Rural Areas
(asked on 2nd December 2014) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of rural off gas grid households in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) each county in each.
Estimates of the number of off gas properties are available at country, Local Authority and lower layer super output area level within Great Britain. These are not split by rural or urban classification. It is estimated that in 2012 the number of off gas properties in each country was:
Country | Per cent | Number |
England | 10 per cent | 2,209,000 |
Scotland | 18 per cent | 437,000 |
Wales | 15 per cent | 195,000 |
Great Britain | 11 per cent | 2,826,000 |
Estimates for local authority are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sub-national-estimates-of-households-not-connected-to-the-gas-network.
Estimates for 2013 will be published on 18 December 2014.