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754972

registered interest
date	20/07/2017
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, with reference to the Answer of 20 April 2017 to Question 64508, whether consumers who switch energy provider and whose smart meters are then inoperable in smart mode accrue any benefits from the installation of those meters.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	6801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>At the time of our latest available official statistics (31 March 2017), we estimate that there were approximately 460,000 SMETS1 meters being operated in traditional mode. Work is underway to allow SMETS1 meters to be operated in smart mode by any energy supplier by enrolling them into the Data and Communications Company.</p><p>Smart meters temporarily operating in traditional mode will continue to accurately record energy use and the IHD (In-Home Display) will show energy consumption, helping consumers to save money. Consumers are also able to obtain meter readings via the IHD and so will not have the inconvenience of needing to access the meter interface.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington grouped question UIN 6179 question first answered 05/09/2017 16:26:24 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

754283

registered interest
date	19/07/2017
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, with reference to the Answer of 20 April 2017 to Question 70526, on energy: meters, what the cost was of installing those 0.33 million smart meters.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	6169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>We do not have access to the detailed energy supplier information on these specific installs that would enable us to calculate the cost of this particular set of smart meters.</p><p>Work is underway to allow SMETS1 meters to be enrolled into the Data and Communications Company. Once this is complete, smart meters that are currently operating in traditional mode will become fully interoperable with all energy suppliers, and therefore able to operate again in smart mode.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 05/09/2017 15:23:16 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

754284

registered interest
date	19/07/2017
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, with reference to the Answer of 24 April 2017 to Question 70526, on energy: meters, what was linked to the change in benefits reported in table 2.2 of the 2016 cost benefit analysis.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	6168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>The change in net benefits in table 2.2 of the 2016 Smart Meter Roll-out Cost-Benefit Analysis results from changes to a range of costs and benefit estimates including assumptions on the future cost of energy; the replacement of estimated costs with firm costs; updates on energy supplier rollout plans; changes to expected network and load shifting benefits; and methodological updates. These are set out in sections 2.3, 2.4, 2.6, 2.10, 2.11 and 2.13 of the publication.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 05/09/2017 15:23:27 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

754285

registered interest
date	19/07/2017
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, with reference to the Answer of 20 April 2017 to Question 70525, for what reasons SMETS1 meters will continue to be rolled out when SMETS2 meters are ready for installation.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	6167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>We have provided for a transition period until July 2018 for energy suppliers to phase out SMETS1 meters and to scale up their deployment of SMETS2 meters. This is to allow energy suppliers to test their business systems and SMETS2 meters through the Data and Communications Company and to retrain their installers. Doing so will help ensure that energy consumers receive good service upon installation of the new interoperable smart meters. In the meantime, consumers who want to save money and take control of their energy use can still benefit from SMETS1 meters.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 05/09/2017 15:24:05 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

754289

registered interest
date	19/07/2017
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, with reference to the Answer of 20 April 2017 to Question 70619, on energy meters, what level of allowance has been made for the plan to enroll and adopt SMETS1 meters into the Data and Communications Company.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	6180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>We do not have access to the detailed energy supplier information on these specific installs that would enable us to calculate the cost of this particular set of smart meters.</p><p>Work is underway to allow SMETS1 meters to be enrolled into the Data and Communications Company. Once this is complete, smart meters that are currently operating in traditional mode will become fully interoperable with all energy suppliers, and therefore able to operate again in smart mode.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 05/09/2017 16:25:15 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

754290

registered interest
date	19/07/2017
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, with reference to the Answer of 20 April 2017 to Question 70617, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of smart meters being operated in traditional mode in domestic properties.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	6179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2017 answer text <p>At the time of our latest available official statistics (31 March 2017), we estimate that there were approximately 460,000 SMETS1 meters being operated in traditional mode. Work is underway to allow SMETS1 meters to be operated in smart mode by any energy supplier by enrolling them into the Data and Communications Company.</p><p>Smart meters temporarily operating in traditional mode will continue to accurately record energy use and the IHD (In-Home Display) will show energy consumption, helping consumers to save money. Consumers are also able to obtain meter readings via the IHD and so will not have the inconvenience of needing to access the meter interface.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington grouped question UIN 6801 question first answered 05/09/2017 16:26:24 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

748728

registered interest
date	05/07/2017
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, what assessment he has made of whether the smart meter roll-out is proceeding according to timetable; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	3134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that every home and small business in the country is offered a smart meter the end of 2020. The Programme is making good progress and consumers are already benefiting from smart meters. There are now almost 7 million meters operating across homes and business in Great Britain: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistical-release-and-data-smart-meters-great-britain-quarter-1-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistical-release-and-data-smart-meters-great-britain-quarter-1-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 10/07/2017 16:16:32 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

731764

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
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, how many households are using a pre-payment meter for electricity and gas in (a) the Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency, (b) Scotland and (c) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The Department collects data on the method of payment for domestic gas and electricity customers by public electricity supply (PES) region from a survey of energy suppliers. From this, data is not available by parliamentary constituency; however, Linlithgow and East Falkirk falls within the South Scotland PES region which is provided below instead. Gas data is only collected for Great Britain not the United Kingdom.</p><p>The proportion of, and number of, households on pre-payment meters are estimated as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Gas</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Electricity</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Proportion</p></td><td><p>Number</p></td><td><p>Proportion</p></td><td><p>Number</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Scotland</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td><td><p>260,000</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td><td><p>360,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>16%</p></td><td><p>320,000</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td><td><p>500,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>GB/UK</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td><td><p>3,100,000</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td><td><p>4,200,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>This is published as part of our quarterly energy prices publication: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/quarterly-domestic-energy-price-stastics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/quarterly-domestic-energy-price-stastics</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 27/06/2017 13:36:44 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

724646

registered interest
date	26/04/2017
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, in relation to their target for the installation of smart meters, whether they will report on the quality of the training and certification of installers of those meters.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
uin	HL6888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. I will correspond directly with the noble Baroness.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 27/04/2017 12:02:52 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

724647

registered interest
date	26/04/2017
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 whether they will review the smart meter programme to ensure that safety requirements are being met in relation to consumers.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
uin	HL6889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. I will correspond directly with the noble Baroness.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 27/04/2017 10:59:40 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	4159 label Biography information for Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town