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416789

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the average cost to a consumer is of the (a) installation and (b) removal of a pre-payment meter.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	8865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information requested.</p><p>In June this year Ofgem published a report of its Prepayment Review: 'Understanding Supplier Charging Practice and Barriers to Switching' - <a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/docs/2015/06/prepayment_report_june_2015_finalforpublication.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/docs/2015/06/prepayment_report_june_2015_finalforpublication.pdf</a>.</p><p>Ten of the 19 suppliers who offer prepayment meter tariffs do not charge for the installation of prepayment meters. Of the companies that charge for home visit and the cost of physical prepayment meter installation Ofgem found the cost ranged from £46.84 - £160.00 for customers who gave consent and £69.00 - £179.96 installed under warrant.</p><p>Nine of the 19 suppliers do not charge for the removal of prepayment meters. Of the companies that charge Ofgem found the cost ranged from £46.84 - £160.00.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/09/2015 13:52:11 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

416790

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how her Department plans to feed into the upcoming OFGEM consultation on the costs of pre-payment meters.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
uin	8888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>Ofgem’s prepayment meter review into understanding supplier charging practices found around half of the suppliers who offer prepayment meter tariffs choose not charge for the installation and/or removal of prepayment meters. We welcome Ofgem’s plans to consult further on how this good practice could be extended it to all suppliers. DECC officials continue to work with Ofgem to achieve this aim.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/09/2015 13:52:52 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

391416

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate she has made of the total cost of smart meters being delivered to (a) 100 per cent of customers and (b) 80 per cent of customers by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Rochester and Strood
tabling member printed	Kelly Tolhurst
uin	8075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government’s policy is to make the benefits of smart meters available to all consumers so they can take control of their energy consumption, make better informed decisions on their energy supplier and switch more easily. With a lower target energy suppliers could choose to target the rollout at consumers who were the easiest to service, potentially excluding important groups from the benefits of smart metering.</p><p>The Government’s Smart Metering Impact Assessment projects a strong case for a near universal rollout. It estimates a net present value benefit of around £6 billion over the period to 2030, with total benefits of around £17 billion and costs of around £11 billion.</p><p>Changes in the rollout target would affect both costs and benefits and our provisional estimate is that an 80% rollout target would reduce the net present value by around £2 billion. This reflects that the fixed costs of the smart metering system would be shared across a smaller number of consumers, that there would be additional operational costs for energy suppliers running two metering systems at scale, in particular from needing to continue to manually read basic meters, and that certain network benefits would not be achieved where these require a comprehensive deployment of meters.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/09/2015 15:56:47 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst

391417

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps she is taking to ensure that the smart meter programme will not exceed the projected costs set out in her Department's impact assessment published in January 2014.
tabling member constituency	Rochester and Strood
tabling member printed	Kelly Tolhurst
uin	8076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p>The smart meters programme is designed within the legal framework for the GB energy market. This is based on energy companies competing against each other to supply energy to consumers.</p><p>The Government is requiring all energy suppliers through their licence conditions to deliver smart metering. The energy companies have strong commercial incentives to do this as efficiently as possible, all along their supply chain.</p><p>Ofgem is responsible for regulating the energy market and is able to intervene where suppliers do not meet their licence conditions. In addition, the Data and Communications Company is regulated by Ofgem to ensure that its services are provided in an economic and efficient manner.</p><p>The Government is monitoring progress by all parties on whom the smart metering roll-out depends, to ensure benefits to consumers are delivered.</p><p>There is a strong business case for rolling out smart meters. The total cost of this national infrastructure programme needs to be looked at in the context of its overall net benefits, expected to be around £6 billion.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/09/2015 15:57:50 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst

391418

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what the reason is for the difference between the estimated cost of the Smart Metering Implementation Programme of £10.9 billion included in her Department's Third Annual Report on the roll-out of Smart Meters, December 2014 and the whole life costs of £19.25 billion included in the Major Project Authority's Portfolio data for her Department of June 2015.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	8015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p>The Annual Report on the roll-out of Smart Meters and the Major Project Authority’s report use the same underlying data, taken from the Programme’s Impact Assessment:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-meter-roll-out-for-the-domestic-and-small-and-medium-non-domestic-sectors-gb-impact-assessment" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-meter-roll-out-for-the-domestic-and-small-and-medium-non-domestic-sectors-gb-impact-assessment</a>.</p><p>The difference between the estimated costs is due to the two reports using different methodologies to present the same cost information of the Programme.</p><p>The Annual Report on the roll-out of Smart Meters expresses information in real prices and present values. This follows Treasury guidance for policy appraisal and is aimed at providing future cost and benefit information in a way that is most meaningful for decision making.</p><p>The cost figures in the Major Project Authority’s report are expressed in nominal terms and are not discounted to present value terms. This is aimed at achieving comparability across Government projects but can result in different figures between Impact Assessments and the data reported by the Major Project Authority.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/09/2015 15:55:21 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

391422

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will review the effects to date of the use of smart meters; and if she will estimate how much consumers reduce gas and electricity usage once a smart meter has been installed.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	7975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2015 answer text <p>Our central estimate of energy savings to domestic consumers as a result of smart metering is 2.8% for electricity every year in comparison to what consumption would have been in that year without smart meters (prepayment and credit) and 2% for gas (credit) and 0.5% for gas (prepayment). The energy savings assumptions are conservative in comparison to international evidence.</p><p>In March 2015 DECC published research on the effects of the early rollout of smart meters – The Early Learning Project:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-metering-early-learning-project-and-small-scale-behaviour-trials" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-metering-early-learning-project-and-small-scale-behaviour-trials</a>.</p><p>The Early Learning Projects findings around levels of energy consumption reduction are that DECC’s steady-state projections for the main roll-out fall within the confidence intervals of the energy consumption reductions observed in the research for both gas and electricity. However evidence suggests that larger energy savings are achievable; it is realistic to expect durable energy savings of 3 per cent provided engagement is effective, and larger savings are feasible in the future.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/09/2015 16:02:38 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

388576

registered interest
date	08/07/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what recent assessment she has made of the accuracy of the discount rate applied by her Department for its evaluation of the total costs and benefits of the smart meters programme.
tabling member constituency	Clwyd West
tabling member printed	Mr David Jones
uin	6199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>The Smart Metering Impact Assessment applies the social discount rate prescribed by HM Treasury’s Green Book, which forms the guidance for central Government in preparing and analysing proposed policies, programmes and projects.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 13/07/2015 11:56:38 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1502 label Biography information for Mr David Jones

388581

registered interest
date	08/07/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of the net benefit of the smart meters programme forecast by her Department is accounted for by the assumption that households will (a) reduce their gas and electricity consumption and (b) vary the time of day at which gas and electricity are consumed as a result of using smart meters.
tabling member constituency	Clwyd West
tabling member printed	Mr David Jones
uin	6310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>The energy savings by households and the related carbon emission savings (a) account for approximately 30% of the gross benefits of the smart meter roll-out. Shifting demand to off peak times (b) accounts for approximately 5% of the projected gross benefits of the smart meter roll-out.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 13/07/2015 11:57:05 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1502 label Biography information for Mr David Jones

388582

registered interest
date	08/07/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what reduction in the consumption of (a) gas and (b) electricity the median household is required to make in order to achieve her Department's forecast of the net benefit of the smart meters programme.
tabling member constituency	Clwyd West
tabling member printed	Mr David Jones
uin	6311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>Our central estimate of the energy savings to households set out in the Smart Metering Impact Assessment is a mean of 2% for gas and 2.8% for electricity (both for customers with credit meters). These energy saving assumptions are at the conservative end of the spectrum, based on international evidence. Our modelling in addition takes into account that other policies with consumption reducing effects have been introduced before smart metering.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 13/07/2015 11:56:23 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1502 label Biography information for Mr David Jones

388583

registered interest
date	08/07/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what proportion of her Department's forecast reduction in household gas and electricity consumption arising as a result of the smart meters programme is attributable to the use of an in-home display for the provision of consumption data.
tabling member constituency	Clwyd West
tabling member printed	Mr David Jones
uin	6312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>The Smart Metering Impact Assessment does not provide a specific estimate of the energy savings that are attributable to the use of an In-Home Display, given that the energy savings households are expected to make from smart meters will be dependent on a number of factors. These include the effectiveness of consumer engagement approaches carried out by energy suppliers before, during and after installation and more broadly by Smart Energy GB, as well as the In-Home Display itself.</p><p>Past GB trials and international experience demonstrate that In-Home Displays are instrumental to energy savings. For example, the findings from the Energy Demand Research Project published in 2011 showed that electricity savings with an In-Home Display were generally 2-4% higher than with a smart meter only.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 13/07/2015 11:54:10 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1502 label Biography information for Mr David Jones