Fuel Poverty Mr. Amess To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many (a) people and (b) households were in fuel poverty in each local authority area in each year since 2000; and what the Government's target for fuel poverty reduction was in each such year. Joan Ruddock Since 2000, fuel poverty data at a sub-regional level are only available for 2003, for England. The data for fuel poverty levels for 2003 come from the Fuel Poverty Indicator dataset available online at: http://www.fuelpovertyindicator.co.uk/ The following table shows estimated fuel poverty levels for each local authority in England in 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 | --------------------------------------- |North West Total |187,400 | --------------------------------------- | | | --------------------------------------- |Adur |1,400 | --------------------------------------- |Arun |3,500 | --------------------------------------- |Ashford |2,500 | --------------------------------------- |Aylesbury Vale |3,600 | --------------------------------------- |Basingstoke and Deane |3,400 | --------------------------------------- |Bracknell Forest |2,200 | --------------------------------------- |Brighton and Hove |6,500 | --------------------------------------- |Canterbury |3,300 | --------------------------------------- |Cherwell |2,900 | --------------------------------------- |Chichester |2,600 | --------------------------------------- |Chiltern |1,900 | --------------------------------------- |Crawley |2,100 | --------------------------------------- |Dartford |2,000 | --------------------------------------- |Dover |2,900 | --------------------------------------- |East Hampshire |2,400 | --------------------------------------- |Eastbourne |2,400 | --------------------------------------- |Eastleigh |2,500 | --------------------------------------- |Elmbridge |2,700 | --------------------------------------- |Epsom and Ewell |1,400 | --------------------------------------- |Fareham |2,400 | --------------------------------------- |Gosport |1,900 | --------------------------------------- |Gravesham |2,300 | --------------------------------------- |Guildford |2,800 | --------------------------------------- |Hart |1,800 | --------------------------------------- |Hastings |2,500 | --------------------------------------- |Havant |2,800 | --------------------------------------- |Horsham |2,700 | --------------------------------------- |Isle of Wight |3,800 | --------------------------------------- |Lewes |2,200 | --------------------------------------- |Maidstone |3,300 | --------------------------------------- |Medway |6,200 | --------------------------------------- |Mid Sussex |2,800 | --------------------------------------- |Milton Keynes |4,700 | --------------------------------------- |Mole Valley |1,800 | --------------------------------------- |New Forest |4,000 | --------------------------------------- |Oxford |2,900 | --------------------------------------- |Portsmouth |5,200 | --------------------------------------- |Reading |3,200 | --------------------------------------- |Reigate and Banstead |2,700 | --------------------------------------- |Rother |2,300 | --------------------------------------- |Runnymede |1,700 | --------------------------------------- |Rushmoor |1,900 | --------------------------------------- |Sevenoaks |2,500 | --------------------------------------- |Shepway |2,600 | --------------------------------------- |Slough |2,300 | --------------------------------------- |South Bucks |1,300 | --------------------------------------- |South Oxfordshire |2,900 | --------------------------------------- |Southampton |5,600 | --------------------------------------- |Spelthorne |2,000 | --------------------------------------- |Surrey Heath |1,700 | --------------------------------------- |Swale |3,100 | --------------------------------------- |Tandridge |1,700 | --------------------------------------- |Test Valley |2,500 | --------------------------------------- |Thanet |3,700 | --------------------------------------- |Tonbridge and Mailing |2,400 | --------------------------------------- |Tunbridge Wells |2,500 | --------------------------------------- |Vale of White Horse |2,500 | --------------------------------------- |Waverley |2,600 | --------------------------------------- |Wealden |3,300 | --------------------------------------- |West Berkshire |3,100 | --------------------------------------- |West Oxfordshire |2,100 | --------------------------------------- |Winchester |2,400 | --------------------------------------- |Windsor and Maidenhead |2,900 | --------------------------------------- |Woking |1,900 | --------------------------------------- |Wokingham |3,000 | --------------------------------------- |Worthing |2,500 | --------------------------------------- |Wycombe |3,400 | --------------------------------------- |South East Total |186,500 | --------------------------------------- | | | --------------------------------------- |Bath and North East Somerset|4,100 | --------------------------------------- |Bournemouth |4,400 | --------------------------------------- |Bristol City of |10,200 | --------------------------------------- |Caradon |2,200 | --------------------------------------- |Carrick |2,500 | --------------------------------------- |Cheltenham |2,800 | --------------------------------------- |Christchurch |1,100 | --------------------------------------- |Cotswold |2,100 | --------------------------------------- |East Devon |3,300 | --------------------------------------- |East Dorset |1,900 | --------------------------------------- |Exeter |2,900 | --------------------------------------- |Forest of Dean |2,200 | --------------------------------------- |Gloucester |2,900 | --------------------------------------- |Isles of Stilly |100 | --------------------------------------- |Kennet |1,800 | --------------------------------------- |Kerrier |2,700 | --------------------------------------- |Mendip |2,700 | --------------------------------------- |Mid Devon |1,900 | --------------------------------------- |North Cornwall |2,300 | --------------------------------------- |North Devon |2,400 | --------------------------------------- |North Dorset |1,500 | --------------------------------------- |North Somerset |4,700 | --------------------------------------- |North Wiltshire |3,000 | --------------------------------------- |Penwith |1,900 | --------------------------------------- |Plymouth |6,700 | --------------------------------------- |Poole |3,300 | --------------------------------------- |Purbeck |1,100 | --------------------------------------- |Restormel |2,700 | --------------------------------------- |Salisbury |2,800 | --------------------------------------- |Sedgemoor |2,900 | --------------------------------------- |South Gloucestershire |5,700 | --------------------------------------- |South Hams |2,100 | --------------------------------------- |South Somerset |4,000 | --------------------------------------- |Stroud |2,700 | --------------------------------------- |Swindon |4,400 | --------------------------------------- |Taunton Deane |2,700 | --------------------------------------- |Teignbridge |3,200 | --------------------------------------- |Tewkesbury |1,900 | --------------------------------------- |Torbay |3,700 | --------------------------------------- |Torridge |1,700 | --------------------------------------- |West Devon |1,400 | --------------------------------------- |West Dorset |2,500 | --------------------------------------- |West Somerset |1,000 | --------------------------------------- |West Wiltshire |3,000 | --------------------------------------- |Weymouth and Portland |1,700 | --------------------------------------- |South West Total |128,900 | --------------------------------------- | | | --------------------------------------- |Birmingham |26,500 | --------------------------------------- |Bridgnorth |1,400 | --------------------------------------- |Bromsgrove |2,100 | --------------------------------------- |Cannock Chase |2,300 | --------------------------------------- |Coventry |7,800 | --------------------------------------- |Dudley |7,900 | --------------------------------------- |East Staffordshire |2,900 | --------------------------------------- |Herefordshire County of |5,000 | --------------------------------------- |Lichfield |2,300 | --------------------------------------- |Malvern Hills |1,900 | --------------------------------------- |Newcastle under Lyme |3,300 | --------------------------------------- |North Shropshire |1,600 | --------------------------------------- |North Warwickshire |1,600 | --------------------------------------- |Nuneaton and Bedworth |3,100 | --------------------------------------- |Oswestry |1,100 | --------------------------------------- |Redditch |1,900 | --------------------------------------- |Rugby |2,200 | --------------------------------------- |Sandwell |7,900 | --------------------------------------- |Shrewsbury and Atcham |2,500 | --------------------------------------- |Solihull |4,600 | --------------------------------------- |South Shropshire |1,200 | --------------------------------------- |South Staffordshire |2,500 | --------------------------------------- |Stafford |3,100 | --------------------------------------- |Staffordshire Moorlands |2,500 | --------------------------------------- |Stoke on Trent |7,100 | --------------------------------------- |Stratford on Avon |2,800 | --------------------------------------- |Tamworth |1,800 | --------------------------------------- |Telford and Wrekin |4,100 | --------------------------------------- |Walsall |6,700 | --------------------------------------- |Warwick |3,000 | --------------------------------------- |Wolverhampton |6,600 | --------------------------------------- |Worcester |2,400 | --------------------------------------- |Wychavon |2,800 | --------------------------------------- |Wyre Forest |2,500 | --------------------------------------- |West Midlands Total |138,900 | --------------------------------------- | | | --------------------------------------- |Barnsley |6,300 | --------------------------------------- |Bradford |12,400 | --------------------------------------- |Calderdale |5,400 | --------------------------------------- |Craven |1,500 | --------------------------------------- |Doncaster |8,000 | --------------------------------------- |East Riding of Yorkshire |8,500 | --------------------------------------- |Hambleton |2,200 | --------------------------------------- |Harrogate |3,800 | --------------------------------------- |Kingston upon Hull City of |7,300 | --------------------------------------- |Kirklees |10,700 | --------------------------------------- |Leeds |19,300 | --------------------------------------- |North East Lincolnshire |4,600 | --------------------------------------- |North Lincolnshire |4,300 | --------------------------------------- |Richmondshire |1,200 | --------------------------------------- |Rotherham |6,700 | --------------------------------------- |Ryedale |1,500 | --------------------------------------- |Scarborough |3,100 | --------------------------------------- |Selby |1,900 | --------------------------------------- |Sheffield |13,900 | --------------------------------------- |Wakefield |8,700 | --------------------------------------- |York |4,600 | --------------------------------------- |Yorks and Humber Total |13,600 | --------------------------------------- | | | --------------------------------------- |Amber Valley |3,300 | --------------------------------------- |Ashfield |3,200 | --------------------------------------- |Bassetlaw |3,000 | --------------------------------------- |Blaby |2,100 | --------------------------------------- |Bolsover |2,100 | --------------------------------------- |Boston |1,600 | --------------------------------------- |Broxtowe |2,900 | --------------------------------------- |Charnwood |3,800 | --------------------------------------- |Chesterfield |2,800 | --------------------------------------- |Corby |1,400 | --------------------------------------- |Daventry |1,700 | --------------------------------------- |Derby |6,100 | --------------------------------------- |Derbyshire Dales |1,900 | --------------------------------------- |East Lindsey |3,900 | --------------------------------------- |East Northamptonshire |2,000 | --------------------------------------- |Erewash |3,000 | --------------------------------------- |Gedling |2,900 | --------------------------------------- |Harborough |1,800 | --------------------------------------- |High Peak |2,300 | --------------------------------------- |Hinckley and Bosworth |2,500 | --------------------------------------- |Kettering |2,200 | --------------------------------------- |Leicester |7,500 | --------------------------------------- |Lincoln |2,400 | --------------------------------------- |Mansfield |2,800 | --------------------------------------- |Melton |1,300 | --------------------------------------- |Newark and Sherwood |2,900 | --------------------------------------- |North East Derbyshire |2,500 | --------------------------------------- |North Kesteven |2,500 | --------------------------------------- |North West Leicestershire |2,300 | --------------------------------------- |Northampton |5,000 | --------------------------------------- |Nottingham |7,800 | --------------------------------------- |Oadby and Wigston |1,300 | --------------------------------------- |Rushcliffe |2,600 | --------------------------------------- |Rutland |900 | --------------------------------------- |South Derbyshire |2,100 | --------------------------------------- |South Holland |2,200 | --------------------------------------- |South Kesteven |3,300 | --------------------------------------- |South Northamptonshire |1,900 | --------------------------------------- |Wellingborough |1,900 | --------------------------------------- |West Lindsey |2,300 | --------------------------------------- |East Midlands Total |111,900 | --------------------------------------- | | | --------------------------------------- |Babergh |2,200 | --------------------------------------- |Basildon |4,000 | --------------------------------------- |Bedford |3,600 | --------------------------------------- |Braintree |3,200 | --------------------------------------- |Breckland |3,300 | --------------------------------------- |Brentwood |1,600 | --------------------------------------- |Broadland |3,000 | --------------------------------------- |Broxbourne |1,800 | --------------------------------------- |Cambridge |2,400 | --------------------------------------- |Castle Point |2,000 | --------------------------------------- |Chelmsford |3,600 | --------------------------------------- |Colchester |3,800 | --------------------------------------- |Dacorum |3,000 | --------------------------------------- |East Cambridgeshire |1,800 | --------------------------------------- |East Hertfordshire |2,800 | --------------------------------------- |Epping Forest |2,700 | --------------------------------------- |Fenland |2,300 | --------------------------------------- |Forest Heath |1,500 | --------------------------------------- |Great Yarmouth |2,700 | --------------------------------------- |Harlow |1,800 | --------------------------------------- |Hertsmere |1,900 | --------------------------------------- |Huntingdonshire |3,700 | --------------------------------------- |Ipswich |3,300 | --------------------------------------- |Kings Lynn and West Norfolk |3,900 | --------------------------------------- |Luton |4,400 | --------------------------------------- |Maldon |1,400 | --------------------------------------- |Mid Bedfordshire |2,800 | --------------------------------------- |Mid Suffolk |2,300 | --------------------------------------- |North Hertfordshire |2,700 | --------------------------------------- |North Norfolk |2,900 | --------------------------------------- |Norwich |3,500 | --------------------------------------- |Peterborough |4,100 | --------------------------------------- |Rochford |1,800 | --------------------------------------- |South Bedfordshire |2,500 | --------------------------------------- |South Cambridgeshire |2,900 | --------------------------------------- |South Norfolk |2,900 | --------------------------------------- |Southend on Sea |4,400 | --------------------------------------- |St Albans |2,700 | --------------------------------------- |St Edmundsbury |2,500 | --------------------------------------- |Stevenage |1,900 | --------------------------------------- |Suffolk Coastal |3,100 | --------------------------------------- |Tendring |3,900 | --------------------------------------- |Three Rivers |1,700 | --------------------------------------- |Thurrock |3,400 | --------------------------------------- |Uttlesford |1,600 | --------------------------------------- |Watford |1,600 | --------------------------------------- |Waveney |3,300 | --------------------------------------- |Welwyn Hatfield |2,100 | --------------------------------------- |East England Total |131,9000| --------------------------------------- | | | --------------------------------------- |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 | --------------------------------------- | | | --------------------------------------- |Alnwick |900 | --------------------------------------- |Berwick upon Tweed |800 | --------------------------------------- |Blyth Valley |2,200 | --------------------------------------- |Castle Morpeth |1,200 | --------------------------------------- |Chester le Street |1,500 | --------------------------------------- |Darlington |2,800 | --------------------------------------- |Derwentside |2,500 | --------------------------------------- |Durham |2,200 | --------------------------------------- |Easington |2,700 | --------------------------------------- |Gateshead |5,600 | --------------------------------------- |Hartlepool |2,600 | --------------------------------------- |Middlesbrough |3,800 | --------------------------------------- |Newcastle upon Tyne |7,300 | --------------------------------------- |North Tyneside |5,400 | --------------------------------------- |Redcar and Cleveland |3,800 | --------------------------------------- |Sedgefield |2,500 | --------------------------------------- |South Tyneside |4,300 | --------------------------------------- |Stockton on Tees |4,700 | --------------------------------------- |Sunderland |7,700 | --------------------------------------- |Teesdale |800 | --------------------------------------- |Tynedale |1,600 | --------------------------------------- |Wansbeck |1,800 | --------------------------------------- |Wear Valley |1,900 | --------------------------------------- |North East Total |70,400 | --------------------------------------- Fuel poverty is not measured in terms of number of people who are fuel poor. The Government's long-term objective, as prefigured by s.1 of the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000 is that, as far as reasonably practicable, by 22 November 2016, persons in England should not live in fuel poverty. The interim objective of the Fuel Poverty Strategy in England is that, so far as reasonably practicable, the Government would seek an end to fuel poverty for vulnerable households by 2010. The Government set no annual targets in respect of the 2016 and 2010 targets.