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 households at risk of fuel poverty following the increase in the energy price cap in (a) October 2021 and (b) April 2022 in (i) Hemsworth constituency, (ii) Wakefield local authority area and (c) Yorkshire and Humberside.

BEIS publish Fuel poverty statistics by Region (Table 1), 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.

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

The energy price cap from 1 April 2022 will be announced by Ofgem later this year.