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date	26/01/2023
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to (a) prevent and (b) regulate energy companies from forcibly installing prepayment meters in homes.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	133769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>Prepayment meters (PPMs) allow customers to pay for energy on a pay-as-you-go basis and serve an important function by helping the avoidance of debt and court action. A ban on PPM switching as a last resort could lead to an increase in bailiff action. There are no plans to remove this option.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem has stringent rules on the force-fitting of PPMs and have recently published a letter where they outline steps they will be taking on tackling inappropriate supplier PPM practises including making sure suppliers are complying with those rules.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 03/02/2023 11:09:24 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1581353

registered interest
date	26/01/2023
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that people on pre-payment meters who have not yet redeemed their Energy Bills Support Scheme vouchers will be able to do so.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	133770
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>The Government works with suppliers to communicate the Energy Bills Support Scheme and the importance of customers checking post, emails and text for prepayment meter vouchers and taking action to redeem them.</p><p> </p><p>Suppliers have an obligation to make a minimum of three attempts by at least two different methods (post, email, text, special action message) to contact customers who have not redeemed their voucher. Vouchers are valid for 90 days. Replacement vouchers can be issued but all vouchers must be redeemed by 30 June 2023.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 03/02/2023 11:08:04 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1566432

registered interest
date	12/01/2023
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Royal Mail: Universal Service Obligation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether it is his policy to maintain the Universal Service Obligation for Royal Mail.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	122242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2023 answer text <p>The Government currently has no plans to change the minimum requirements of the universal postal service which are set out in the Postal Services Act 2011.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 19/01/2023 14:56:45 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan