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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2022 to Question 132379 on Energy: Consumption, if he will make an estimate of levels of energy consumption of domestic fuel in October 2022 compared to October (a) 2020, (b) 2019 and (c) 2018.

Monthly outturn data showing domestic electricity consumption are available at:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1056669/ET_5.5_FEB_22.xlsx.

Data on domestic gas consumption are published on a quarterly basis only and are available at:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1053835/ET_4.1_DEC_21_v2.xlsx.

The Department does not publish forecasts of monthly consumption for either electricity or gas.