PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Fuel Poverty: Children (13 July 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many children were living in households classed as being in fuel poverty in (a) Bristol South constituency, (b) Bristol, (c) the South West and (d) England in each year since 2010.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

Fuel poverty is measured at the household level rather than the individual level and detailed data on the age of household occupants is not available at the sub-regional level.

The table below shows the number of fuel poor households which contain at least one child under the age of 16 in (a) England and (b) the South West, in each year since 2010.

Number and proportion of fuel poor households with at least one child under 16

	England		South West
	(000s)	%	(000s)	%
2013	1064	45	115	42
2012	1101	47	77	35
2011	1029	42	74	33
2010	988	40	74	29

Government is committed to supporting fuel poor households in line with our fuel poverty obligations. For example, the Energy Company Obligation supports around 260,000 households per year on low incomes or in low income areas with insulation and heating measures to bring their bills down. Further, the Warm Home Discount provided support to over 2 million low income households with £140 discounts on their electricity bill last winter.

Answered by:
Andrea Leadsom (Conservative)
23 July 2015