Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households in fuel poverty in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) England, (d) Wales and (e) Northern Ireland used prepayment meters to pay for (i) gas and (ii) electricity in each year since May 2010; and what the average monthly bill of such households was.

For the first part of this question, I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave her on 12th March to Question 226662:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-03-09/226662/

DECC do not have data on average actual bills for the fuel poor, or any particular cut of them, as fuel poverty estimates are produced on a notional basis (what the bill would be for a household if they used sufficient energy to meet the heating requirement for the home they live in). A large volume of data on fuel poverty is available on the DECC web site at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-statistics.