Fuel Poverty Mr. Randall 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. Malcolm Wicks 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |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)| -----------------------------------------------------------------------------