Question reference: S6W-13548
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 4 January 2023
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Current status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 16 January 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many homes in (a) Fife and (b) the Central Scotland region rely on liquefied petroleum gas for heating or hot water.
Answer
This information is not available in the form requested.
The Scottish House Condition Survey (SHCS) explores the physical condition of Scotland’s homes as well as the experiences of householders. Data from the (SHCS) provides estimates of the number and percentage of households using LPG (bulk or bottled) as a primary heating fuel, based on a single year of data, and at a local authority level by averaging three years’ of data. The survey has not been designed to provide results by Parliamentary Region. The most recent data for 2017-19 by local authority is presented in the following table.
It should be noted that at a Scotland level over the period 2017 to 2019, 1% or 25,000 of households were estimated to use LPG as a primary heating fuel in their homes. Given this low prevalence, precise actual estimates from survey results are not available for Fife and other Local Authority areas.
It should also be noted that some households may use LPG as a secondary heating fuel, alongside other fuels. This is not included in the table below.
Table 1: Number and percentage of households using LPG (bulk or bottled) as a primary heating fuel, by local authority, SHCS 2017 to 2019
Local Authority | LPG bulk or bottled | LPG bulk or bottled |
Aberdeen City | [c] | [c] |
Aberdeenshire | 3,000 | 3% |
Angus | 2,000 | 4% |
Argyll and Bute | 2,000 | 6% |
Clackmannanshire | [c] | [c] |
Dumfries and Galloway | 2,000 | 3% |
Dundee City | [z] | [z] |
East Ayrshire | [z] | [z] |
East Dunbartonshire | [c] | [c] |
East Lothian | [c] | [c] |
East Renfrewshire | [z] | [z] |
City of Edinburgh | [z] | [z] |
Na h-Eileanan Siar | 1,000 | 7% |
Falkirk | [c] | [c] |
Fife | [c] | [c] |
Glasgow City | [z] | [z] |
Highland | 3,000 | 3% |
Inverclyde | 1,000 | 1% |
Midlothian | 1,000 | 2% |
Moray | 1,000 | 2% |
North Ayrshire | [c] | [c] |
North Lanarkshire | [z] | [z] |
Orkney Islands | [z] | [z] |
Perth and Kinross | 2,000 | 4% |
Renfrewshire | [z] | [z] |
Scottish Borders | 1,000 | 2% |
Shetland Islands | [c] | [c] |
South Ayrshire | 1,000 | 2% |
South Lanarkshire | 1,000 | 1% |
Stirling | 1,000 | 2% |
West Dunbartonshire | [c] | [c] |
West Lothian | [c] | [c] |
Scotland | 25,000 | 1% |
Notes
1. Figures are based on a three-year average from the Scottish House Condition Survey 2017- 2019.
2. All numbers are rounded to the nearest 1,000 and percentages are rounded to the nearest whole number.
3. The following symbols are used in this analysis: [c] indicates base sample too small to report (below 30 cases) or estimate representing 2 or fewer sampled households and [z] indicates no sample cases in this category.