Fuel Poverty: Pensioners
(asked on 9th December 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the number of pensioners at risk of fuel poverty following the increase in the energy price cap in (a) October 2021 and (b) April 2022.
This question was answered on 15th December 2021
The Government has produced fuel poverty projections for 2021 which are published in the annual fuel poverty statistics projections report.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-statistics
The energy price cap from 1 April 2022 will be announced by Ofgem next year.