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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many households were in fuel poverty by (a) principal local authority and (b) parliamentary constituency in England in each year since 2015; and what equivalent estimate and forecast he has made for (i) 2021 and (ii) 2022; and if he will make a statement.

BEIS publish Fuel poverty statistics by Local Authority (Table 2) and parliamentary constituency (Table 4) in England, the latest data covers 2019. These are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-sub-regional-statistics#2019-statistics.

BEIS also publish Fuel poverty long term trends, covering 2010-2019, under the Low Income Low Energy Efficiency (LILEE) and the Low Income High Costs (LIHC) indicators here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fuel-poverty-trends-2021.

The Government’s projection for the number of households in England that would be in fuel poverty for the year 2021 is published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fuel-poverty-statistics-projections-2021.