HL Deb 12 January 1998 vol 584 cc148-9WA
Lord Fraser of Carmyllie

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What would be their best estimate of the additional cost on the annual average household fuel bill, for each of the next three years, of maintaining the proportion of electricity created by gas-fired generation at 1997 levels and requiring planned increases in gas generation to be replaced by coal.

The Minister of State, Department of Trade and Industry (Lord Clinton-Davis)

No such estimates have or can be made.