English Housing Survey: Fuel Poverty Dataset, 2023

<p>The English Housing Survey (EHS) Fuel Poverty Datasets are comprised of fuel poverty variables derived from the EHS, and a number of EHS variables commonly used in fuel poverty reporting. The EHS is a continuous national survey commissioned by the Ministry of Housing, Community and Local Government (MHCLG) that collects information about people's housing circumstances and the condition and energy efficiency of housing in England. </p><p><i>Safeguarded and Special Licence Versions </i><i><br></i>Similar to the main EHS, two versions of the Fuel Poverty dataset are available from 2014 onwards. The Special Licence version contains additional, more detailed, variables, and is therefore subject to more restrictive access conditions. Users should check the Safeguarded Licence (previously known as End User Licence (EUL)) version first to see whether it meets their needs, before making an application for the Special Licence version. </p><p><br></p> <p>The <span style="font-style: italic;">English Housing Survey: Fuel Poverty Dataset, 2023</span> is the outcome of analysis conducted to produce estimates of fuel poverty in England in 2023 undertaken by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ).</p><p>Fuel poverty in England is measured using the Low Income Low Energy Efficiency (LILEE) indicator, which considers a household to be fuel poor if:</p><ul><li>it is living in a property with an energy efficiency rating of band D, E, F or G as determined by the most up-to-date Fuel Poverty Energy Efficiency Rating (FPEER) Methodology; and</li><li>its disposable income (income after housing costs (AHC) and energy costs) would be below the poverty line. The poverty line (income poverty) is defined as an equivalised disposable income of less than 60 per cent of the national median in Section 2 of the ONS publication 'Persistent poverty in the UK and EU: 2017'.</li></ul><p>The Low Income Low Energy Efficiency model is a dual indicator, which allows us to measure not only the extent of the problem (how many fuel poor households there are), but also the depth of the problem (how badly affected each fuel poor household is). The depth of fuel poverty is calculated using the fuel poverty gap. This is the reduction in fuel costs needed for a household to not be in fuel poverty. This is either the change in required fuel costs associated with increasing the energy efficiency of a fuel poor household to a Fuel Poverty Energy Efficiency Rating (FPEER) of band C or reducing the costs sufficiently to meet the income threshold.</p><p>The fuel poverty dataset is derived from the <span style="font-style: italic;">English Housing Survey, 2023</span> database created by the MHCLG. This database is constructed from fieldwork carried out between April 2022 and March 2024. The midpoint of this period is April 2023, which can be considered as the reference date for this dataset.</p>