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

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many households in the UK rely on (1) oil, and (2) liquified petroleum gas, as their sole source of energy.

Oil as primary source:

• 760,000 households in England (The English Housing Survey (2019));
• 129,000 households in Scotland (The Scottish House Condition Survey (2019));
• 140,000 households in Wales (The Welsh Housing Conditions Survey (2017/18));
• 526,000 households in Northern Ireland (The Northern Ireland House Condition Survey (2016).

Liquified petroleum gas as primary source:

• 160,000 households in England (The English Housing Survey (2019));
• 18,000 households in Scotland (The Scottish House Condition Survey (2019));
• Data on liquified petroleum gas has not been published separately in Wales or Northern Ireland.