<p>Data on fuel poverty are only available on an annual basis and is measured at the household level. The following table shows estimates for the number of households in fuel poverty in 2010 and 2011, split by country:</p><p><table><thead><tr><td valign="top">Numberof households in fuel poverty(million)<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Country<br /></td><td valign="top">2010<br /></td><td valign="top">2011<br /></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td valign="top">England<br /></td><td valign="top">3.54<br /></td><td valign="top">3.20<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Scotland<br /></td><td valign="top">0.66<br /></td><td valign="top">0.58<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Wales<br /></td><td valign="top">0.33<br /></td><td valign="top">0.37<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">NorthernIreland<br /></td><td valign="top">0.30<br /></td><td valign="top">0.29<br /></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">UK<br /></td><td valign="top">4.75<br /></td><td valign="top">4.50<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p>These figures are calculated using the 10% measure of fuel poverty, which is the headline measure used in countries other than England, whereby a household is said to be fuel poor if it needs to spend more than 10% of its income on fuel to maintain an adequate level of warmth.</p><p>Under the new Low Income High Cost indicator a household is considered fuel poor if they have above average fuel costs and were they to spend that amount on fuel, they would be left with a residual income below the official poverty line. The number of households in fuel poverty using the Low Income High Costs measure is only available for England.</p><p>The latest year with data available is 2011. Total UK figures have been rounded to nearest 0.25 million, due to the uncertainty associated with the estimates by country.</p><p>These estimates were published in the ‘Fuel poverty report: annual report on statistics 2013’:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fuel-poverty-report-annual-report-on-statistics-2013</p>