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Northern Ireland Office

Answer

Mr. Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what estimate he has made of the annual cost of heating an average domestic property in Northern Ireland by (a) electricity, (b) solid fuel and (c) natural gas. [175860] Mr. Spellar: The following table contains the most recent available space and water heating costs for the fuel types across Northern Ireland. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Annual cost of space and water heating for average size houses, (£) Fuel Type of heating 2 bed 3 bed 4 bed system Solid Fuel House coal--Group 2 Open fire with back 562 740 1,046 boiler radiators and Domestic Hot Water cylinder Anthracite Room heater with 530 694 973 Nuts--`Burnglo' back boiler Radiators and Domestic Hot Water cylinder Anthracite Grains Gravity feed boiler 498 655 926 Radiators and Domestic Hot Water cylinder Electricity Standard Domestic Electric radiators, 1,266 1,711 2,510 Tariff immersion water heater Economy 7 Tariff 1 Storage heaters 562 747 1,083 living rooms, Electric radiators bedrooms, Immersion water heater Natural Gas Phoenix Natural gas Gas fired boiler, 474 618 870 Home Energy Tariff Radiators and (Including optional Domestic Hot Water Direct Debit cylinder Discount) Gas fired 395 512 718 condensing boiler, Radiators and Domestic Hot Water cylinder _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Source: Northern Ireland Housing Executive.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

422 c348-50W; 175860

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Housing Heating Northern Ireland Prices

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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