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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the average wholesale price of electricity was in 2016.

The average base load wholesale price of electricity in the day-ahead market for the period January to November 2016 was £42 per megawatt-hour*.

*Source: Ofgem electricity prices, https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/chart/electricity-prices-day-ahead-baseload-contracts-monthly-average-gb