Electricity: Prices
(asked on 24th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the effect of the renewable subsidies programme on household electricity bills.
This question was answered on 28th October 2016
Renewables subsidies are estimated to account for around 6% of an average household dual fuel bill of £1,029 in 2016.*
* Source: National Audit Office analysis of Department of Energy & Climate Change data, July 2016. Figures in real 2011/12 prices.