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Fuel Poverty: North West

Volume 493: debated on Thursday 11 June 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of 20 May 2009, Official Report, column 1481W, on fuel poverty, how many fuel poor households there are in each local authority area in the North West. (278051)

The most recent year for which estimates of fuel poverty are available at sub-regional level is 2003. This sub-regional data for fuel poverty levels in 2003 come from the Fuel Poverty Indicator dataset, available online at:

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

Fuel poverty figures for local authorities in the North West are shown as follows for 2003:

Number

Allerdale

2,700

Barrow in Furness

2,200

Blackburn with Darwen

3,900

Blackpool

4,400

Bolton

7,100

Burnley

2,700

Bury

4,700

Carlisle

2,900

Chester

3,100

Chorley

2,600

Congleton

2,200

Copeland

2,100

Crewe and Nantwich

3,000

Eden

1,500

Ellesmere Port and Neston

2,100

Fylde

2,000

Halton

3,200

Hyndburn

2,400

Knowsley

4,200

Lancaster

3,700

Liverpool

14,200

Macclesfield

3,700

Manchester

11,900

Oldham

5,700

Pendle

2,600

Preston

3,600

Ribble Valley

1,400

Rochdale

5,500

Rossendale

1,800

Salford

6,400

Sefton

8,000

South Lakeland

2,800

South Ribble

2,500

St. Helens

4,900

Stockport

7,300

Tameside

5,800

Trafford

5,500

Vale Royal

3,100

Warrington

4,800

West Lancashire

2,800

Wigan

8,300

Wirral

9,200

Wyre

2,900