Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 100986

Fuel Poverty: Hexham

Tabled: 17 December 2025
Answered: 9 January 2026

Question

Joe Morris

LabourHexham

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment the Department has made of the level of energy-related cost pressures on low- income households in Hexham constituency as referenced in the Child Poverty Strategy.

Answer

Martin McCluskey
The 2025 sub-regional fuel poverty statistics (using 2023 data) use the LILEE (Low Income, Low Energy Efficiency) metric to estimate fuel poverty for local areas. In 2023, 16,198 households were estimated to be in fuel poverty in the Northumberland local ...

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