February 2012: National Energy Action (NEA) have just published their latest estimates of fuel poverty across the UK, which include regional breakdowns. The briefing document (link here; document here) reports that:
- There are an estimated 6.6 million UK households live in fuel poverty
- By October 2011 all six major suppliers had raised their energy prices adding approximately £300 onto the average household energy bill
- Last winter brought an estimated 25,400 excess winter deaths (page 13 of the paper)
- Of which provisional figures estimate that 2,500 deaths were in London
- There has been an increase in the number of fuel poor households in London from 401,859 (13.3%) in 2009 to 564,691 (18.6%) in 2011 (page 15 of the paper)