Energy: Billing
(asked on 17th October 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, what information the Government holds on how many households have been on British Gas, E.on, EDF, Npower, Scottish Power and SSE's standard variable tariffs for (a) five years or more and (b) 10 years or more.
Neither the Department nor Ofgem collect data on how long customers have been on specific tariffs.
Ofgem have previously published data on the number of customer accounts on standard variable tariffs by company. Data as at November 2016 is shown in the table below.
Supplier | Number of customers accounts on standard variable tariffs |
British Gas | 6,639,000 |
EDF Energy | 1,943,000 |
E.ON | 3,170,000 |
Npower | 1,738,000 |
Scottish Power | 1,541,000 |
SSE | 3,864,000 |
The data is available on Ofgem’s website at: