Energy: Billing
(asked on 6th February 2018) - 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 estimate his Department has made of the average spend on energy bills by UK households in each year since 2010.
Based on estimated average annual consumption figures of 3,800kWh for standard electricity and 15,000kWh for gas, BEIS has published the following figures. Note that 2017 figures are provisional, with actual figures being published in March.
In real terms, average (standard) electricity and gas bills (in 2010 prices) are:
| Electricity | Gas | Combined |
2010 | £474 | £564 | £1,038 |
2011 | £503 | £605 | £1,108 |
2012 | £523 | £662 | £1,185 |
2013 | £547 | £690 | £1,237 |
2014 | £551 | £701 | £1,252 |
2015 | £541 | £661 | £1,202 |
2016 | £532 | £591 | £1,123 |
2017(p) | £552 | £564 | £1,116 |
Notes:
Figures in the table can be found in Table 221 and Table 231 of Quarterly Energy Prices:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/quarterly-energy-prices-december-2017