Electricity Prices

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Energy – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 July 1983.

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Photo of Mr Peter Walker Mr Peter Walker , Worcester 12:00, 4 July 1983

I shall examine the problems connected with energy supply to industry. About 98 per cent. of firms in Britain pay advantageous prices for electricity compared with firms in Germany, Italy and Holland, and the same as firms in Belgium. Only France, mainly because of its nuclear development, can claim to have lower energy prices. I shall examine carefully any particular problems.