Department for Energy Security and Net Zero written question – answered at on 16 April 2026.
Abtisam Mohamed
Labour, Sheffield Central
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what recent estimate he has made of the number of households in Fuel Poverty who live in properties that do not have loft insulation.
Martin McCluskey
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The latest annual Fuel Poverty statistics estimate that around 873,000 households in England were in fuel poverty in 2025 and lived in properties with under 125 mm of loft insulation, equivalent to a fuel poverty rate of 13.3% for this group. This compares with a rate of fuel poverty of around 7.8% (1.17 million households) among households with 125 mm or more of loft insulation, and 9% (316,000 households) among households where loft insulation is not applicable.
These estimates are produced under the Low Income Low Energy Efficiency (LILEE) metric and are published in Table 17 of the Fuel poverty detailed tables 2026 (2025 data).
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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.
