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515818

registered interest
date	26/04/2016
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 take steps to ensure that gas smart meter installers check for carbon monoxide after fitting the meter and the appliance has been relit.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	35560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>While no specific test for carbon monoxide is undertaken once a gas smart meter has been installed and a gas appliance re-commissioned, energy suppliers are required to comply with a number of existing regulations and other requirements when fitting gas smart meters in their customers’ premises that relate to the safety of installations and gas appliances. These include the Gas Safety (Installations and Use) Regulations (1998) and the Meter Asset Managers’ Code of Practice (MAMCOP) which set out the roles, responsibilities and expectations of meter installers when safety issues are identified during meter installation visits.</p><p> </p><p>Energy UK has also issued a Good Practice Guidance document to suppliers for issues found during meter exchange visits. The Guidance outlines the principles of what suppliers will do for their domestic customers where safety issues are identified during a meter installation visit. A key principle is that whenever a safety issue is identified, either with the gas (or electricity) installation or with an unsafe appliance or other equipment, the meter installer’s first priority is seek to make the situation safe. The guidance also sets out the steps installers should take when either an emergency or non-emergency issue is identified with customer or landlord-owned appliances or equipment.</p><p> </p><p>Energy suppliers must also comply with the Smart Meter Installation Code of Practice. This states that the installer should inform the customer about the dangers of carbon monoxide (CO) and the need to regularly have all gas appliances serviced and checked by a Gas Safe Registered engineer (<a href="http://www.smicop.co.uk/SitePages/Home.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.smicop.co.uk/SitePages/Home.aspx</a>). Suppliers are also required as part of their licence conditions to take all reasonable steps to provide, free of charge, information about the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning and the benefits of fitting an audible carbon monoxide alarm complying with a relevant British or European safety standard to their domestic customers at least once a year.</p><p> </p><p>In cases where customers are concerned about carbon monoxide poisoning they should call the Gas Emergency Helpline on 0800 111 999 and switch off the appliance and shut off the gas supply at the meter control valve. They should also ask a Gas Safe registered engineer to inspect their gas appliances and flues to see if there is a dangerous problem.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 35561 question first answered 04/05/2016 11:06:12 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

514440

registered interest
date	20/04/2016
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 the Government is taking to ensure that smart meters are installed in areas with poor mobile signal.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Andrew Bingham
uin	34737
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2016 answer text <p>The Data and Communications Company (DCC) is putting in place a communications network across GB to send and receive information from smart meters to energy suppliers, energy network operators and energy service companies in a Wide Area Network (WAN).</p><p> </p><p>The DCC is contracted to provide network coverage of at least 99.25% of GB premises by the end of 2020 and to achieving at least 80% coverage of GB premises when it begins live services later this year.</p><p> </p><p>Our ambition is for all domestic and small business premises to have smart meters.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 27/04/2016 12:01:22 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	3994 label Biography information for Andrew Bingham

514027

registered interest
date	19/04/2016
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 number of households which will refuse a smart meter.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	34655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government has not made a specific estimate of the number of consumers that will refuse a smart meter. We will monitor this as the roll-out progresses.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 25/04/2016 15:38:27 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

484317

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
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 (a) evidence her Department holds and (b) research her Department has undertaken on the effect of smart meters on people with electromagnetic hypersensitivity.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	32207
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>DECC takes its advice on matters related to public health from Public Health England.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England has conducted and reviewed research on the effects of smart meters and has stated that the radio waves produced by smart meters do not pose a risk to health, including to those who identify themselves as electromagnetically sensitive. More information can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-meters-radio-waves-and-health/smart-meters-radio-waves-and-health" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/smart-meters-radio-waves-and-health/smart-meters-radio-waves-and-health</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 11/04/2016 11:26:59 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

484324

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
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 assesses the likely effectiveness of alternatives to in-home displays in changing consumer behaviour when applications for derogations to provide such alternatives are considered.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	32126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>DECC has committed to publish guidance to support energy supplier applications for derogations to trial alternatives to in-home displays with smart meter consumers. This will include a pro forma capturing the information required to consider the merits of those trial applications. The Government’s response to the consultation setting out the derogation proposals indicated that applications will need to, among other things:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/497078/IHD_Policy_Framework_Licence_Conditions_Post_Consultation_Decisions_Final_for_Publication.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/497078/IHD_Policy_Framework_Licence_Conditions_Post_Consultation_Decisions_Final_for_Publication.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><ul><li>Demonstrate a reasonable expectation that the alternative approach will lead to regular and sustained engagement with energy consumption information and in turn energy savings;</li><li>Provide full details of the trial proposed including details of the customer journey and engagement tools, the trial design, the research questions, research methods to be used and the approach to assuring the trial is robust in design and delivery;</li><li>Justify the size of trial necessary to provide robust and sufficiently precise findings; and,</li><li>Set out how they will communicate information on the alternative to consumers in a clear and intelligible way, ensuring it is appropriate to the consumers it is offered to.</li></ul> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 11/04/2016 11:21:33 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

470425

registered interest
date	14/03/2016
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, with reference to paragraph 36 of the Competition and Markets Authority report on energy market investigation published on 10 March 2016, if her Department will prioritise customers with dumb prepay meters in the smart meter rollout.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	31036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2016 answer text <p>The Competition and Market Authority provisional decision on remedies published on 10 March 2016 recognises the key contribution smart metering will make to strengthening retail competition and consumer engagement in the energy market, but did not recommend prioritising the roll-out of smart meters to prepayment customers.</p><p>There is a clear incentive for suppliers to offer smart meters to prepayment customers early, because prepayment customers who have ‘traditional’ meters currently cost more to serve. A number of energy suppliers are already offering or trialling smart prepayment services and offering a more competitive range of prepay tariffs to consumers.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 18/03/2016 14:42:36 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

461271

registered interest
date	11/03/2016
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 her Department's governance arrangements are for the smart meter rollout.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	30829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department is accountable for the Smart Metering Programme business case, and for ensuring that consumers realise the benefits of smart metering. Energy suppliers in turn are responsible for planning and delivering the roll-out, working within the regulatory framework established by the Government.</p><p> </p><p>Following the award of the Smart Meters Communications Licence to the Data and Communications Company (DCC) in September 2013, the Department developed with industry and consumer organisations a Transition Governance Model to support its decision making and to drive and coordinate progress across energy suppliers, network operators, the DCC and Smart Energy GB. This model includes a regular Ministerial governance meeting with board-level energy industry and consumer group counterparts:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/363674/transition_governance_overview.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/363674/transition_governance_overview.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>This is reviewed regularly and is currently moving its focus to oversight of the main installation phase of the programme.</p><p> </p><p>Once energy suppliers are rolling out smart meters at scale through the Data and Communications Company, the Department intends to step back leaving industry to manage the overall system through enduring governance arrangements set out in the Smart Energy Code and subject to regulatory oversight from Ofgem.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 30830 question first answered 16/03/2016 15:41:42 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

461273

registered interest
date	11/03/2016
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 her Department's project management arrangements are for the smart meter rollout.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	30830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department is accountable for the Smart Metering Programme business case, and for ensuring that consumers realise the benefits of smart metering. Energy suppliers in turn are responsible for planning and delivering the roll-out, working within the regulatory framework established by the Government.</p><p> </p><p>Following the award of the Smart Meters Communications Licence to the Data and Communications Company (DCC) in September 2013, the Department developed with industry and consumer organisations a Transition Governance Model to support its decision making and to drive and coordinate progress across energy suppliers, network operators, the DCC and Smart Energy GB. This model includes a regular Ministerial governance meeting with board-level energy industry and consumer group counterparts:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/363674/transition_governance_overview.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/363674/transition_governance_overview.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p>This is reviewed regularly and is currently moving its focus to oversight of the main installation phase of the programme.</p><p> </p><p>Once energy suppliers are rolling out smart meters at scale through the Data and Communications Company, the Department intends to step back leaving industry to manage the overall system through enduring governance arrangements set out in the Smart Energy Code and subject to regulatory oversight from Ofgem.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom grouped question UIN 30829 question first answered 16/03/2016 15:41:42 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

461277

registered interest
date	11/03/2016
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 plans to take to ensure that suppliers that are awarded smart meter derogations relating to in-home displays provide alternatives to such devices that are appropriate for all energy customers.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	30853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government agreed in its ‘In Home Display Licence Conditions: Consultation response’ document published in February 2016 to introduce a derogation process for suppliers to apply to my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State to undertake trials of innovative In Home Display alternatives when installing smart meters:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/smart-meter-in-home-display-licence-conditions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/smart-meter-in-home-display-licence-conditions</a>.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in the consultation response, one of the key trial requirements on which applications will be assessed is how suppliers will consider the needs of all energy customers when providing them a data engagement tool, including those with accessibility needs.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 18/03/2016 14:44:14 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

461278

registered interest
date	11/03/2016
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 assessment she has made of the potential merits of making all smart meter derogations subject to randomised control trials.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	30854
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government agreed in its ‘In Home Display Licence Conditions: Consultation response’ document published in February 2016 to introduce a derogation process for suppliers to apply to my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State to undertake trials of innovative In Home Display alternatives with consumers when installing smart meters:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/smart-meter-in-home-display-licence-conditions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/smart-meter-in-home-display-licence-conditions</a>.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in the consultation response, the Department is preparing guidance to help suppliers develop derogation proposals. This will include guidance on the use of a range of different research designs and methods, including randomised control trials and other approaches to generating robust evidence.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 18/03/2016 14:44:47 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook