Energy: Housing
(asked on 28th March 2017) - View Source
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 23 March 2017 to Question 68609, what estimate his Department has made of the average (a) spend on household energy bills as a percentage of household expenditure and (b) real term spent per household on energy bills in each year since 2010.
The average expenditure on household energy bills as a proportion of total expenditure is as follows:
| Proportion of total expenditure spent on domestic |
2010 | 4.5% |
2011 | 4.6% |
2012 | 4.7% |
2013 | 5.1% |
2014 | 4.9% |
2015/16 | 4.4% |
Based on data from ONS’s living costs and food survey (table A6): https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/expenditure/datasets/detailedhouseholdexpenditurebygrossincomedecilegroupuktablea6
The average annual bills in real terms from 2010 are as follows:
| Standard Electricity | Gas | Combined |
2010 | £474 | £564 | £1,038 |
2011 | £503 | £605 | £1,108 |
2012 | £523 | £662 | £1,185 |
2013 | £547 | £690 | £1,237 |
2014 | £552 | £701 | £1,253 |
2015 | £541 | £662 | £1,203 |
2016 | £533 | £592 | £1,125 |
Based on a fixed consumption of 3,800kWh for standard electricity and 15,000kWh for gas. Data are taken from tables 2.2.1 and 2.3.1 of energy prices: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/annual-domestic-energy-price-statistics