Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 1 October 2020.
Rebecca Long-Bailey
Labour, Salford and Eccles
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment the Government has made of the effect of Fuel Poverty on trends in the level of respiratory problems.
Jo Churchill
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
Respiratory problems are usually caused by a number of different factors, making it difficult to quantify the contribution of an individual risk such as Fuel Poverty.
Public Health England published the 2nd Atlas of variation in risk factors and healthcare for respiratory disease in England in 2019. This is available to view at the following link:
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/atlas-of-variation
The atlas looks at variation in the percentage of houses that experience fuel poverty and the Excess Winter Deaths Index at lower-tier local authority level.
Yes4 people think so
No3 people think not
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A household is said to be in fuel poverty when its members cannot afford to keep adequately warm at reasonable cost, given their income.
