Table of Contents

1 Introduction 1.1 Background 1.2 What is Fuel Poverty? 1.3 A Timeline of the Development of Fuel Poverty 1.4 Fuel Poverty Now 2 Fuel Poverty Methodology 2.1 Introduction 2.2 A Summary of How Fuel Poverty is Measured, and has Been Measured in the Past 2.3 Details of the Components of the Definitions 2.4 Data Sources 3 Fuel Poverty Trends 3.1 Timeline of Fuel Poverty in the UK 3.2 Who are the Fuel Poor? 3.3 Reasons for Changing Levels of Fuel Poverty 4 Fuel poverty at a Local Level 4.1 Introduction 4.2 BRE Housing Stock Modelling Tools 5 Conclusions and the Future of Fuel Poverty Development 5.1 Conclusions 5.2 Fuel Poverty Measurement in the Future 6 References

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