PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Energy: Prices (17 September 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate she has made of the average domestic energy bill in (a) Redcar constituency, (b) the North East and (c) the UK in (i) 2010 and (ii) 2015.

Asked by:
Anna Turley (Labour)

Energy bill data are only produced at regional level. The tables below show the average annual domestic energy bill for the North East public electricity supply area, which includes Redcar constituency, and the UK. Bill estimates are shown for the years 2010 and 2014, the most recent data available, and are based on fixed consumption levels of 3,800kWh/year for electricity and 15,000 kWh/year for gas. The bills provided are averaged across all methods of payment and expressed in cash terms.

North East
	Electricity	Gas	Combined
2010	£462	£562	£1,024
2014	£589	£737	£1,326

UK average
	Electricity	Gas	Combined
2010	£474	£564	£1,038
2014	£592	£752	£1,344

Estimates of average domestic energy bills by region are derived from data in tables 2.2 and 2.3 of DECC’s Quarterly Energy Prices publication.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/annual-domestic-energy-price-statistics.

Answered by:
Andrea Leadsom (Conservative)
12 October 2015