Department for Energy Security and Net Zero written question – answered at on 30 July 2024.
Emma Foody
Labour/Co-operative, Cramlington and Killingworth
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people in Cramlington and Killingworth Constituency living in Fuel Poverty.
Emma Foody
Labour/Co-operative, Cramlington and Killingworth
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what proportion of households spent more than 10 percent of their household income on energy Bills in Cramlington and Killingworth Constituency in each year since 2010.
Miatta Fahnbulleh
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The latest statistics for the number of households in Fuel Poverty in parliamentary constituencies in England, can be found in the published sub-regional fuel poverty statistics, in Table 4: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-statistics. These statistics were published in line with the boundaries operating prior to the 2024 General Election.
The latest official Fuel Poverty Statistics for England were published in February 2024 here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-statistics#2023-statistics Annex D of this report includes an affordability measure of the number of households required to spend more than 10 per cent of their income on domestic energy. However, affordability measure estimates are not held at sub-national level.
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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.
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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.
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