Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many excess winter deaths in Wansbeck constituency in 2018-19 were due to people unable to heat their homes.

The number of households living in fuel poverty in Wansbeck constituency in 2017 can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sub-regional-fuel-poverty-data-2019, Table 5

The total number of excess winter deaths in Wansbeck constituency in 2016-17 can be found at the following link:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/adhocs/009366excesswintermortalitybyparliamentaryconstituencyenglandandwales2016to2017. Figures are not published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for specific causes at Parliamentary Constituency level because the number of excess winter deaths are very low.