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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what is the average gas and electricity consumption of small and medium sized businesses broken down into non-domestic EPC bands.

BEIS publishes information on the gas and electricity consumption of non-domestic buildings, including splits by occupying business size, in England and Wales. This is available for total gas/electricity consumption, as well as the median gas/electricity intensity (which accounts for the size of the building, which can vary considerably). This is available in tables 12 and 13 of the Non-Domestic National Energy Efficiency Data-framework (2022): https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/non-domestic-national-energy-efficiency-data-framework-nd-need-2022.

Total consumption figures are given only for non-domestic buildings which have occupying business information (around 50%), so will be underestimated. These figures also exclude any businesses working from domestic premises.

Average consumption and splits by EPC band are not available due to data limitations.