Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the average cost is before subsidy or tax of producing UK electricity from (a) gas and (b) wind.

DECC publishes estimates for the levelised costs of electricity generation for different technologies. The most recent estimates are available in the DECC Electricity Generation Costs (December 2013) report, available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/269888/131217_Electricity_Generation_costs_report_December_2013_Final.pdf.