Electricity: Billing

(asked on 31st January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what social, environmental and other levies currently added to electricity bills are due to expire in each of next 10 years; and if he will set out the (a) value and (b) policy detail of each of those levies.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 8th February 2022

Under current arrangements, no social and environmental levies on electricity bills are due to expire in the next 10 years. According to Ofgem, social, environmental, and other levies totalled 25.48 percent on electricity bills in 2020. The policy detail of each of these levies can be found published on Ofgem’s website: https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-and-social-schemes

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