Energy: Billing
(asked on 10th September 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many households in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland are on a Standard Variable Tariff for their electricity and gas supply; and if he will make a statement.
The Department estimates that there are around 15 million households in the UK on standard variable tariffs.
| Electricity | Gas |
England & Wales | 13,000,000 | 10,600,000 |
Scotland | 1,400,000 | 1,100,000 |
Northern Ireland | 700,000 | 200,000 |
UK | 15,000,000 | 12,000,000 |
Information is collected by Electricity PES (Public Electricity Suppliers) area, so data for England and Wales are not available separately. The above estimates based on survey data include households on standard pre-payment tariffs.