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	date	26/06/2018
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the accuracy of gas meters and smart meters.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Featherstone
	uin	HL8975
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>Gas meters used for billing must be of an approved design and be accurate. Accuracy limits for smart and ‘traditional’, non-smart meters are identical and set out in legislation.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for Product Safety and Standards manages an annual in-service testing regime to test the accuracy of gas meter types. Testing is undertaken on the basis of sampling and to date all gas meter types sampled have passed.</p><p> </p><p>In the event of a dispute over the accuracy of a meter, the law gives all consumers the right to have their gas meter independently checked and tested. The vast majority of meters tested as a result of consumer dispute are found to be accurate.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 06/07/2018 13:24:13 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
	tabling member	1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone

931629

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2018
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what recent assessment they have made of the efficacy of the smart meter programme in reducing the proportion of households in fuel poverty.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Featherstone
	uin	HL8977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>No recent assessment has been made. However, BEIS research published in 2015 (the <em>Early Learning Project</em>) concluded that there is potential for households in all income groups to make energy and/or cost savings from smart metering. Previous research (the <em>Energy Demand Research Project</em>) had also identified a more positive response to smart metering from consumers in areas of relatively high fuel poverty.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 06/07/2018 13:16:19 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
	tabling member	1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone