The number of households in fuel poverty rose to 3.5 million in 2006, the latest figures from the Government showed this week.
The figure, an increase of one million on 2005 levels, includes around 2.75 million homes classed as "vulnerable" - containing a child, elderly person or someone with a long-term illness.
The figures, released by the Department for Environment and the Department for Business, mean that 3.5 million households are having to spend more than 10 per cent of their income on heating.
In England, the number of homes in fuel poverty rose from 1.5 million in 2005 to 2.4 million in 2006, including an extra 700,000 vulnerable households.
The Government attributed the rise in the number of households in fuel poverty across the UK to an increase in consumer energy bills of 22 per cent between 2005 and 2006. 02/10/08
 
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