Fuel Poverty: Children

(asked on 1st June 2015) - View Source

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many children live in households that are classed as being in fuel poverty in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough constituency.


Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
This question was answered on 4th June 2015

Fuel poverty is measured at the household level rather than the individual level and detailed data on the age of household occupants is not available at the sub-regional level. The table below shows the number and proportion of fuel poor households which contain at least one child under the age of 16 in (a) England and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber, in 2013.

Fuel poor households with at least one child under 16 (000s)

Proportion of fuel poor households with at least one child under 16 (%)

England

1,064

45

Yorkshire and Humberside

124

52

In Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough the total number of households in fuel poverty was estimated to be six thousand, representing 14 per cent of all households in the region.

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