Department for Energy Security and Net Zero written question – answered at on 17 July 2026.
Andrew Mitchell
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
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 in the Birmingham City Council area.
Martin McCluskey
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The latest sub-regional fuel poverty data were published in May 2026, these estimated the level of Fuel Poverty in 2024, under the Low Income Low Energy Efficiency (LILEE) metric. The Birmingham Local Authority had an estimated fuel poverty rate of 13.8% (60,832 households) in 2024, which is higher than the overall fuel poverty rate in England of 9.9%.
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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.
