UK Fuel Poverty Monitor 2022: Published

The National Energy Action (NEA) and Energy Action Scotland (EAS) have published the latest findings of the latest UK Fuel Poverty Monitor covering the 2021-22 period. This annual report assesses the state of fuel poverty across the four nations, and this year considers the causes and impacts of soaring energy prices on UK Households.

The report investigates responses to the current energy crisis and highlights the actions that are still needed to mitigate the current crisis, as well as averting the worst impacts from future price spikes.

The report has been informed by a Call for Evidence (CfE), which gained responses from 119 respondents covering the breadth of the UK, as well as drawing on wider engagement with stakeholders through one-on-one meetings and drew on the direct experience of people who are living through the crisis. The report looks at six case studies and is also informed by polling of the public to gain a representative view of its findings and conclusions.

The report finds that while organisations have stepped up support to help households through the crisis, the hardest hit require deeper, targeted support, with households on the lowest incomes being the hardest hit and those falling into multiple intersecting categories of vulnerability being disproportionately affected.

Further information can be found in the full report.