PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Fuel Poverty (24 September 2020)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of households within £100 of being classed as fuel poor.
Asked by:
Matt Western (Labour)
Asked by:
Matt Western (Labour)
Answer
The number of households currently classed as fuel poor for whom a reduction of £100 in their modelled fuel costs would remove them from being classed as fuel poor, in the latest available year, was 703,000.
The number of households currently not classed as fuel poor for whom an increase of £100 in their modelled fuel costs would classify them as fuel poor, in the latest available year, was 919,000.
These figures are based on the 2018 fuel poverty dataset that is derived based on the English Housing Survey.
Answered by:
Kwasi Kwarteng (Conservative)
2 October 2020
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