Frank Field
Chair, Draft Modern Slavery Bill Committee, Chair, Draft Modern Slavery Bill Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change (a) how many and (b) what proportion of fuel poor households in England were pre-payment customers in each year since 2007.
Gregory Barker
The Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change
The number and proportion of fuel poor households in England under the low income high costs (LIHC) definition, who use pre-payment for gas or electricity is shown in the following table for each year of available data since 2007:
| Prepayment meter for gas | Prepayment meter for electricity | |||
| Number of fuel poor households (£000) | Proportion of fuel poor households (Percentage) | Number of fuel poor households (£000) | Proportion of fuel poor households (Percentage) | |
| 2007 | 455 | 19.3 | 575 | 24.4 |
| 2008 | 493 | 20.2 | 619 | 25.4 |
| 2009 | 523 | 21.0 | 670 | 27.0 |
| 2010 | 529 | 21.4 | 669 | 27.1 |
| 2011 | 467 | 19.6 | 592 | 24.8 |
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