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Energy: Bills

Volume 459: debated on Tuesday 17 April 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the average domestic (a) gas and (b) electricity bill in England was in each year from 1996-97 to 2006-07; and what estimate his Department has made for 2007-08. (130546)

The average domestic electricity1 and gas bills for England and Wales are shown as follows and are published in Quarterly Energy Prices. The data presented are for standard credit customers in cash terms, it has not been adjusted for inflation.

1 The bills for standard electricity do not include customers that are on economy 7 tariffs.

£

Electricity bill

Gas bill

1996

295

330

1997

283

328

1998

266

315

1999

260

304

2000

253

295

2001

246

293

2002

244

310

2003

245

320

2004

251

333

2005

281

386

2006

335

474

Domestic gas and electricity price forecasts are not published by DTI. Provisional 2007 bills will be published on 27 September 2007.