To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what his most recent estimate is of the number of households in (a) Cheltenham and (b) each of the Gloucestershire constituencies which were in fuel poverty in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available. (183015)

Over the last 10 years, sub-national estimates of fuel poverty are available only for 2003. The data for fuel poverty levels for 2003 come from the Fuel Poverty Indicator dataset (available online at http://www.fuelpovertyindicator.org.uk/). In 2003, there were around 2,800 households in Cheltenham living in fuel poverty. The following table shows estimated fuel poverty levels for each local authority in Gloucestershire in 2003;