Catching up with the aftermath of Storm Cornetto Goretti, I’ve just read on the BBC News website:
More than 44,000 properties across the UK remain without power, according to updated figures from the National Grid
But National Grid are not national. They only cover about a third of the area of England and (south) Wales. Presumably they therefore only have figures for how many properties that they serve are without power. Of course that doesn’t falsify the above statement, but may well mean that there are significantly more people affected (for the most part in south-east and northern England, north Wales and Scotland).