Energy: Bills Mrs. Spelman 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. Malcolm Wicks 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.