Regional fuel poverty figures are not available prior to 2001. The following table shows a regional breakdown of fuel poverty for 2006, the most recent year for which data are available.
Region Number of fuel poor households 2006 (thousand) North East 179 Yorks and Humber 273 North West 415 East Midlands 236 West Midlands 304 South West 256 East England 224 South East 291 London 254 Total 2,432
Local authority data on fuel poverty are not available for 1997. The most recent year for which local authority levels of fuel poverty are available is 2003 and the following table shows these for local authorities in London.
Local authority Number of fuel poor households 2003 (thousand) 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 London total 162,200