Written question asked by Jim Cunningham (Labour) on Tuesday, 28 March 2017, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 18 April 2017 (named day). It was answered by Jesse Norman (Conservative) on Tuesday, 18 April 2017 on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Energy: Housing

Question: 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.

Answer

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%

The average annual bills in real terms from 2010 are as follows:

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

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 69551
Session: 2016-17
Related items: Energy: Housing
Thursday, 23 March 2017
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects: Housing Energy
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.parliament.uk