The SNP's Westminster leader, Stephen Flynn, claimed the average household bill in Scotland is £1,000 more than the UK government's energy price guarantee. But Ofgem told FactCheck this 'doesn't ring true'.
“For households in Scotland energy prices have not been frozen at two and a half grand—indeed, the average bill in Scotland has been closer to £3,500.”But energy regulator Ofgem has told FactCheck that it “do[es]n’t recognise” the figure and that it “doesn’t ring true”.
But Mr Flynn claimed that this wasn’t the case in Scotland, with the average bill being closer to £3,500 a year. A spokesperson for energy regulator Ofgem told FactCheck: “We don’t recognise the £3,500 figure at all, not least as there is no unified energy price published for Scotland under the government’s EPG.”
The greatest regional variation that the House of Commons researchers could find between two regions was £139 in 2022. That represents a 6 per cent gap between Merseyside and north Wales and the north east, which was the least expensive.
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