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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Fuel Poverty: Merseyside (1 October 2019)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many households in (a) Wallasey constituency, (b) Wirral and (c) Merseyside are living in fuel poverty.

Asked by:
Dame Angela Eagle (Labour)

Answer

The number of households living in fuel poverty in 2017 in Wallasey constituency, Wirral and Merseyside can be found in the table below.

Estimated number of households living in Fuel poverty, 2017

Wallasey Constituency

Wirral (Local Authority)

Merseyside[1]

Estimated number of households in fuel poverty

6,300

19,900

92,700

Proportion of households in fuel poverty (%)

15.3

13.5

14.7

Household figures have been rounded to the nearest 100.

The latest sub-regional statistics can be found here : https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sub-regional-fuel-poverty-data-2019, Table 2, Table 4 and Table 5

[1] Figures for Merseyside County has been derived from the 5 Metropolitan districts – Liverpool, Knowsley, St. Helens, Sefton and Wirral.


Answered by:
Kwasi Kwarteng (Conservative)
7 October 2019

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