Campaigners have referred to as on the UK authorities to freeze family vitality prices past the tip of March as falling wholesale costs sharply cut back the quantity of presidency subsidy wanted to carry payments regular.

The common UK family invoice is ready to rise to £3,000 per 12 months between April and June underneath the vitality value assure scheme, up from £2,500 in the present day, as chancellor Jeremy Hunt has argued that the federal government can’t afford to maintain subsidising payments on the decrease degree.

Households face even steeper will increase as the federal government’s vitality invoice help scheme, which shaved an extra £400 off each family fee, is ready to finish.

However the newest forecasts for UK family vitality prices present the regulator’s value cap — which units the unsubsidised value of vitality for almost all of houses — won’t rise as a lot as beforehand feared, reaching round £3,300 in April and dropping under £2,200 from June.

Late final 12 months it was predicted that it will rise nicely above £4,000 as vitality costs soared.

Cornwall Perception, a consultancy, estimated on Monday that the extra price to the federal government of freezing payments at £2,500 between April and June could be £2.6bn, or lower than 10 per cent of the full price of the EPG that has been in place since October.

Learn extra about UK family vitality payments right here.