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Energy Bills

Volume 447: debated on Monday 19 June 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1) what the Department's projections are for (a) commercial, (b) retail, (c) household and (d) manufacturing energy bills in January (i) 2007, (ii) 2008, (iii) 2009, (iv) 2010 and (v) 2015; and if he will make a statement; (78287)

(2) what the Department's projections are for average commercial (a) gas and (b) electricity prices in January (i) 2007, (ii) 2008, (iii) 2009, (iv) 2010 and (v) 2015; and if he will make a statement.

The DTI does not project energy bills or prices for the commercial, retail, household or manufacturing sectors.

The DTI does make a range of assumptions regarding the likely path of future fossil fuel prices (oil, coal and gas) when undertaking forward-looking analysis and these are illustrated in the recent paper on UK Emissions projections. This is available at http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/environment/projections/recent/page26391.html.