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One in four single parents forced to choose between eating and heating, government stats reveal
Centre manager Michele Lawrence gives a fuel voucher to a client at the Trussell Trust Brent Foodbank, Neasden, London
MORE than one in four single parents in England are having to choose between eating and heating, government statistics on fuel poverty revealed today.
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) revealed that the number of households in fuel poverty in England increased for the third consecutive year in 2016, affecting about 2.55m households.
The latest figures showed that 26.4 per cent of lone parents were forced to bring their children up in fuel poverty in 2016, up from 23.6 per cent in 2015.
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