Government plans to slash the sample size for its survey on English housing conditions will make it ‘impossible’ to assess fuel poverty, an academic has warned. Dave Gordon, professor at the school for policy studies at Bristol University, said plans to cut the number of people questioned by the English Housing Survey by as much as 40 per cent would leave the government unable to assess whether it is meeting its legal obligation to reduce fuel poverty. Currently 17,700 households are surveyed at a cost of £5.95 million. Professor Gordon said: ‘If they cut it by more than 10 per cent we would not be able to make any reasonable guess as to whether fuel poverty is going up or down in individual regions. You would just get a vague national picture.’
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