Written question asked by Alan Milburn (Labour) on Tuesday, 12 May 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 14 May 2009. It was answered by Joan Ruddock (Labour) on Monday, 8 June 2009 on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Housing: Insulation

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how many houses have been insulated in (a) each region of England and (b) Darlington under Government schemes in each of the last five years.

Answer

The following tables detail the number of homes insulated in (a) each region of England and (b) Darlington under Warm Front in the last five years.

(a) insulated households in each region of England
Region	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
East Midlands	¹—	2,904	9,087	9,320	8,562
East of England	¹—	2,809	8,980	10,161	10,825
Greater London	9,795	5,079	4,952	6,041	6,105
North East England	10,913	5,463	6,049	4,833	3,353
North West England	33,478	18,930	24,541	20,988	19,166
South East England	13,602	8,709	9,751	8,684	8,889
South West England	12,038	7,487	8,161	8,296	7,987
West Midlands	20,520	11,112	12,844	11,958	10,522
Yorkshire and Humber	¹—	4,202	11,283	13,385	9,845
¹ Unavailable

(b) Insulated households in Darlington
	Number
2004-05	581
2005-06	221
2006-07	305
2007-08	204
2008-09	134
Note: Households insulated may have received one or more measures, such as cavity wall and loft insulation. Additionally, figures for 2004-05 do not include the Eastern Region or Yorkshire and the Humber as these areas were managed by a different Scheme Manager at this time (Powergen) and the data retained are not sufficient to provide a consolidated response.

Secondary information