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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the real-terms increase in household energy bills since 2010; and if he will make a statement.

Between 2010 and 2016, household energy bills in real terms increased by 9.2 per cent. For gas, the increase was 5.9 per cent, whilst for electricity, it was 13 per cent. This comparison is based on bills based on average consumption levels of 15,000kWh for gas and 3,800kWh for standard electricity.

Between 2010 and 2015 domestic energy consumption on a temperature corrected basis fell by 5.2%. Consumption data for 2016 will be published in Energy Trends on March 30^th.