Not since the 1970s has energy poverty been so high on the agenda of an incoming cabinet. The cost of living crisis is the single biggest concern of the electorate at present.
However, according to the latest figures on fuel poverty (published in 2022 but which date to 2020), the constituencies represented by the MPs around the cabinet table are less vulnerable to fuel poverty than the rest of the country.
Nationally, the proportion of people defined as living in fuel poverty in 2020 stood at 13.2%. However, of the 21 full cabinet members for whose constituencies fuel poverty figures are available (leaving out Lord True and the Scottish secretary, Alister Jack), two-thirds (14 of the total) represent constituencies with below-average levels of fuel poverty.
