Energy: Debts
(asked on 17th November 2014) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the number of customers in debt to their energy supplier for (a) electricity and (b) gas in each of the last 10 years.
This question was answered on 24th November 2014
Ofgem monitors and publishes information about domestic customers repaying debt for their gas and electricity supplies in its Social Obligations Annual Reports:
The table below shows the number of domestic customers repaying debt through an agreed repayment arrangement with their energy supplier for 2003 to 2012. Data for 2013 is not yet available.
(millions)
2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | |
Electricity | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.9 |
Gas | 1.2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.8 |