House debates Questions without Notice

Electricity Prices

Monday, 25 June 2012 House of Representatives

Greg Hunt

Greg Hunt Flinders, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Environment and Heritage

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to this letter from Global Switch—which runs a data centre for leading Australian companies—to its customers, dated 14 May 2012. The letter confirms that the electricity rate will rise from 14.8c per kilowatt hour to 19.4c from 1 July 2012, a rise of 31 per cent. Will the Prime Minister now admit that many small businesses using off-peak tariffs will face electricity increases after 1 July far in excess of the 10 per cent she promised?

Mr Laming interjecting—

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