Pensioners (Central Heating)

HC Deb 02 November 1992 vol 213 c96W

27. Mr. Jacques Arnold

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many pensioner households had central heating in 1979 and in 1990.

Miss Widdecombe

The percentage of pensioner households with central heating in 1979 was 43 per cent., increasing to 74 per cent. in 1990.