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Fuel Poverty

Volume 469: debated on Tuesday 11 December 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many households in (a) the Uxbridge constituency, (b) each London borough and (c) England (i) are classified as living in fuel poverty and (ii) were classified as living in fuel poverty in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. (171485)

Regional estimates of fuel poverty are available only for 2003 and are taken from the Fuel Poverty Indicator dataset—available online at

http://www.fuelpovertyindicator.org.uk/

For Uxbridge constituency the dataset shows that there were an estimated 2,300 fuel poor households.

The following table shows fuel poverty levels for all the London boroughs.

London borough

Estimate of number of fuel poor households

Barking and Dagenham

3,900

Barnet

6,700

Bexley

5,000

Brent

5,300

Bromley

6,700

Camden

4,800

City of London

200

Croydon

7,700

Ealing

6,100

Enfield

6,000

Greenwich

5,300

Hackney

4,600

Hammersmith and Fulham

3,800

Haringey

5,200

Harrow

4,000

Havering

5,000

Hillingdon

4,800

Hounslow

4,300

Islington

4,200

Kensington and Chelsea

4,100

Kingston upon Thames

3,200

Lambeth

6,100

Lewisham

5,900

Merton

4,200

Newham

5,800

Redbridge

5,200

Richmond upon Thames

4,100

Southwark

5,400

Sutton

3,900

Tower Hamlets

3,800

Waltham Forest

5,300

Wandsworth

5,900

Westminster

5,600

Grand Total

162,200

An estimate of the number of households in fuel poverty in England can be found in Chapter 2 of the “The UK Fuel Poverty Strategy; Fourth Annual Progress Report 2006”, available online at

http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file29688.pdf

Number of households in fuel poverty in England, 1996 to 2004 (Bracketed figures in millions are based on levels using the basic income definition)

1996

1998

2001

2002

2003

2004

Total fuel poor

5.1 (5.5)

3.4 (4.0)

1.7 (2.3)

1.4 (2.0)

1.2 (1.5)

1.2 (1.4)

Vulnerable

4.0 (4.3)

2.8 (3.2)

1.4 (1.9)

1.2 (1.6)

1.0 (1.2)

1.0 (1.1)

Non-vulnerable

1.1 (1.2)

0.6 (0.8)

0.2 (0.4)

0.2 (0.4)

0.2 (0.3)

0.3 (0.3)