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223267

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date	24/02/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the oral contribution by the hon. Member for Hastings and Rye of 14 January 2015, Official Report, column 931, what the evidential basis is for the statement that the number of independent suppliers has trebled to 19 since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	225176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>I would like to update the answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Hastings and Rye.</p><p>In May 2010 there were 7 independent companies supplying gas and/or electricity to households in Great Britain. Since 2010, thanks to the pro-competition, pro-consumer policies of this Government, as part of our long term economic plan, the number of independent suppliers has not just trebled, but almost quadrupled.</p><p>The Domestic Energy Market Snapshot 31 October 2014, published by Energy UK, notes that the number of suppliers in the domestic market has reached an all-time high of 26 suppliers.</p><p><a href="http://www.energy-uk.org.uk/publication.html?task=file.download&amp;id=5017" target="_blank">http://www.energy-uk.org.uk/publication.html?task=file.download&amp;id=5017</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 03/03/2015 13:59:30 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

223268

registered interest
date	24/02/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate his Department has made of the wholesale cost of (a) electricity and (b) gas in each year since 2001.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	225172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p>DECC does not itself estimate wholesale market prices for electricity and gas. These prices are provided to us on a commercial basis by Marex Spectron and ICIS Heren for electricity and gas respectively.</p><p>We have calculated yearly averages of the day-ahead wholesale electricity and gas prices (respectively) provided to DECC by Marex Spectron and ICIS Heren respectively on license. These are shown in the table below. Wholesale gas data provided to DECC is only available from 2007.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Wholesale gas (p/therm) price</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Electricity (£/MWh)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>(Source: NBP day-ahead price from ICIS Heren)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(Source: day-ahead price from Marex Spectron)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001</p></td><td> </td><td><p>18.40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002</p></td><td> </td><td><p>16.70</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003</p></td><td> </td><td><p>21.20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004</p></td><td> </td><td><p>22.60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td> </td><td><p>39.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td> </td><td><p>42.60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>31.10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>74.50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>37.50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>41.90</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>48.20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>45.10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>68</p></td><td><p>50.60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>42.40</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 02/03/2015 17:49:16 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

223269

registered interest
date	24/02/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the oral contribution by the hon. Member for Hastings and Rye of 14 January 2015, Official Report, column 931, on energy prices, what the evidential basis is for the statement that the market share of independent suppliers is 10.5 per cent.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	225177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p>The Domestic Energy Market Snapshot 31 October 2014, published by Energy UK, notes that the aggregate major supplier share of the domestic dual fuel energy market had dropped to 89.5%.</p><p><a href="http://www.energy-uk.org.uk/publication.html?task=file.download&amp;id=5017" target="_blank">http://www.energy-uk.org.uk/publication.html?task=file.download&amp;id=5017</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 02/03/2015 17:48:03 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

222480

registered interest
date	20/02/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the Rate of Return on Equity for each of the Distribution Network Operators under Distribution Price Control Review 5.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	224816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2015 answer text <p>Ofgem are responsible for regulating the electricity Distribution Network Operators (DNOs) and the setting of the price control review. Ofgem’s latest estimate for the Rate of Return on Equity for each of the DNOs is in the attached table which covers the years 2010-11 to 2013-14. The last year of Distribution Price Control Review 5 (2014-15) is still on-going.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 25/02/2015 13:09:44 question first ministerially corrected 03/03/2015 09:58:49 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock attachment 1 file name Copy of RORE DNOs Excel.xlsx title Rate of Return on Equity for DNOs 2010-1 to 2013-4 previous answer version 46378 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex