Recent Government statistics (2019 data) showed 3.18 million UK households live in Fuel Poverty¹.  They estimate each one needed an additional £216 to make up the gap in finance¹.

On the 1st of April 2022, £693 was added to the energy price cap², prompting the government to introduce a deferral scheme for energy bills and a council tax discount.

While official statistics catch up with the impact of COVID19 and energy prices, more recent analysis confirms that these interventions will not help as costs were already unmanageable³.

Around 4.3 million children or 31% of all children in the UK are growing up in poverty⁴.

Work is increasingly not a reliable route out of poverty. It remains the case that over half of people in poverty live in a family where at least one adult is in work⁴.

Sources

¹ https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/966509/Annual_Fuel_Poverty_Statistics_LILEE_Report_2021__2019_data_.pdf
² https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/price-cap-increase-ps693-april
³ https://www.jrf.org.uk/press/new-measures-wont-protect-poorest-families-new-energy-price-cap
⁴ https://www.jrf.org.uk/press/rising-child-and-pensioner-poverty-shows-why-covid-inquiry-must-consider-its-impact
⁵ https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23881