Fuel Poverty report: 2025
Summary
DESNZ publishes annual statistics on fuel poverty in England for 2025, including household composition analysis and 2026 projections. This is routine monitoring data tracking the distributional impact of energy costs. The report follows the established Low Income High Costs indicator methodology.
Why it matters
Redistributive — tracks symptoms of expensive energy rather than addressing supply costs or market structure that create fuel poverty in the first place.
Key facts
- •Covers fuel poverty data for England in 2025
- •Includes projections for 2026
- •Published 24 March 2026
- •Uses household composition analysis methodology
Areas affected
Memo
Fuel Poverty report: 2025 - Accredited official statistics announcement - GOV.UK Cookies on GOV.UK We use some essential cookies to make this website work. We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services. We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services. You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your at any time. You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your at any time. Accept additional cookies Reject additional cookies View cookies Hide cookie message Accredited official statistics announcement Fuel Poverty report: 2025 The report includes data on the number of households living in fuel poverty in England, an analysis of the composition of the fuel poor group in 2025, and projections of the number of households in fuel poverty in 2026. From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Published 17 February 2026 Last updated 24 March 2026 Release date: 26 March 2026 9:30am (confirmed) These statistics will be released on 26 March 2026 9:30am Is this page useful? Maybe Yes this page is useful No this page is not useful Thank you for your feedback Report a problem with this page Help us improve GOV.UK Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details. This field is for robots only. Please leave blank What were you doing? What went wrong? Send Cancel Help us improve GOV.UK To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript ) . Cancel