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In the 2008 Budget, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, the right hon. Member for Edinburgh South West (Mr Darling), announced an increase in suppliers' collective expenditure on their voluntary social programmes.Government requested that Ofgem set the parameters for what could be included by suppliers as part of this spend on social initiatives and annually monitor suppliers' progress against the voluntary commitment.Ofgem have published the figures in annual reports on suppliers social spend covering the years 2008-11. This includes the numbers of customer accounts on social and discounted tariffs in Great Britain.By 31 March 2011, 1,029,332 customer accounts were benefiting from social and discounted tariffs:"http://www.ofgem.gov.uk/Sustainability/SocAction/Suppliers/CSR/Documents1/Suppliers%20Social%20Spend%20report%202010-2011.pdf"By 31 March 2010, 1,010,382 customer accounts were benefiting from social and discounted tariffs:"http://www.ofgem.gov.uk/Sustainability/SocAction/Suppliers/CSR/Documents1/Monitoring%20Suppliers%20Social%20Spend%202009-10.pdf"By 31 March 2009, 1,004,470 customer accounts were benefiting from social tariffs:"http://www.ofgem.gov.uk/Sustainability/SocAction/Suppliers/CSR/Documents1/Monitoring_suppliers_social_spend_2008_09_final.pdf" |