Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 100987
Fuel Poverty: Northumberland
Tabled: 17 December 2025
Answered: 9 January 2026
Question
Joe Morris
Labour — Hexham
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 Northumberland as referenced in the Child Poverty Strategy.
Answer
Martin McCluskeyThe 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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