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Motor Sports: Finance

Mr. Wallace: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform which successful bids for the Spring 2007 technology programme were linked to motor sports. [220500]

Malcolm Wicks: One successful bid under the Spring 2007 Collaborative Research and Development call of the Technology Programme was linked to motor sports. However, the details are commercial in confidence.

National Grid: Standards

John Penrose: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform when he plans to publish national grid's full report into the sequence of events and causes of the drops in system frequency on 27 May 2008. [220557]

Malcolm Wicks: The national grid has published a report into the events of 27 May 2008. This can be found on the national grid website at

Natural Gas: Prices

Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what estimate he has made of the average cost of gas to (a) domestic and (b) commercial consumers in each of the last five years. [206039]

Malcolm Wicks: Domestic retail prices for gas are published quarterly in section 2 of "Quarterly Energy Prices", the latest edition of which was published in June 2008 and is available online at:


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Table 2.3.1 on page 21 holds average gas bills, back to 1990, split by payment method.

Table 3.4.1 on page 44 shows gas prices for non-domestic consumers split by consumption band. The Department
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does not hold any data on gas prices to commercial consumers.

Table 2.3.1 Average annual domestic gas bills by home and non-home supplier
£
Standard credit Direct debit( 5) Prepayment

 Home suppliers Non-home suppliers GB Home suppliers Non-home suppliers GB Home suppliers Non-home suppliers GB

2002

326

273

310

295

258

281

327

327

327

2003

335

289

320

302

275

292

335

343

336

2004

344

309

333

317

296

309

355

342

351

2005

402

354

386

364

338

353

406

387

401

2006

510

427

474

453

400

424

515

467

498

2007

569

531

552

499

496

497

602

570

589


Table 3.4.1 Prices of fuels purchased by non-domestic consumers in the United Kingdom (excluding the Climate Change Levy)
Pence per kWh
2006 2007 2008
Fuel Size of consumer 1( st) quarter 2( nd) quarter 3( rd) quarter 4( th) quarter 1( st) quarter 2( nd) quarter 3( rd) quarter 4( th) quarter 1( st) quarter

Electricity

Very Small

7.30

7.88

8.53

9.10

9.29

9.57

9.67

9.67

9.74

Small

6.54

6.66

7.04

7.76

7.98

7.29

7.99

8.09

8.20

Small/Medium

6.66

6.48

6.60

7.73

7.81

6.59

7.20

7.15

7.24

Medium

5.98

5.91

5.85

6.97

7.09

6.23

6.26

6.32

6.36

Large

5.88

5.65

5.68

6.56

6.77

5.74

5.92

6.01 r

6.28

Very Large

5.00

5.01

5.03

5.49

5.93

5.62

5.63

5.81 r

6.46

Extra Large

—

—

—

—

6.31

4.76

4.19

5.14r

5.65

Average

6.09

6.10

6.24

7.03

7.11

6.49

6.63

6.82r

7.09

Gas

Very Small

2.367

2.173

2.442

2.641

2.843

2.621

2.580

2.651

2.998

Small

2.398

2.126

2.244

2.411

2.630

2.260

1.919

2.234

2.504

Medium

2.375

1.941

2.037

2.016

2.160

1.811

1.543

1.800

2.085

Large

2.379

1.743

1.666

1.869

1.894

1.376

1.291

1.588

2.008

Very Large

2.066

1.412

1.281

1.347

1.374

0.968

1.048

1.512

1.789

Average

2.337

1.858

1.820

2.012

2.159

1.718

1.516

1.908

2.263


A copy of the ‘Quarterly Energy Prices - June 2008' is available from both Libraries of the House.

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what expenditure his Department incurred in retaining King Sturge to market the Berkeley Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Site; and whether the report on the work undertaken will be published. [223575]

Malcolm Wicks: I am advised that the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority initially instructed King Sturge to help market some office accommodation at the Berkeley site, but were subsequently stood down and no expenditure has been incurred.

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