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422608

registered interest
date	20/10/2015
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, whether the new smart meters being rolled-out under her Department's initiative are competitively-priced as required under EU Directive 2006/EC/32; and what information her Department holds on their competitive pricing.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Roger Mullin
uin	12511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2015 answer text <p>Meters being rolled-out as part of the DECC programme are compliant with this requirement. Meters are within the competitive part of the GB energy market and are the responsibility of energy suppliers to procure, install and operate. Energy suppliers have a competitive incentive to ensure that they achieve value for money for their customers when purchasing meters.</p><br /><p>DECC has assessed the development of smart meters by manufacturers, as well as the supply chains of energy suppliers in relation to smart metering, and is confident that a well-developed market exists based on competitive pricing.</p><br /> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 26/10/2015 15:16:30 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4468 label Biography information for Roger Mullin

422609

registered interest
date	20/10/2015
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, whether the efficiency of the smart metering system being rolled-out under her Department's initiative meets the requirements of the 2010 Coalition Agreement to establish a smart grid that would reduce network losses.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Roger Mullin
uin	12512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government is committed to rolling out smart meters to every home and small business in the country by the end of 2020. Smart meters are a core component of establishing a smart grid and our transition to a smarter energy system. The roll-out is expected to deliver benefits in its own right from reduced network losses worth £496 million in the period to 2030, ahead of the wider benefits of a smart grid.</p><p><br></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 26/10/2015 15:16:10 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4468 label Biography information for Roger Mullin

422222

registered interest
date	19/10/2015
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, whether her Department (a) has conducted and (b) plans to conduct any research into alternative customer engagement tools to In Home Displays.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	12308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2015 answer text <p>In 2011 the Energy Demand Research Project reported on a series of Government-supported supplier-led trials covering a range of feedback mechanisms from over 50,000 GB houses. These included but were not limited to In Home Displays with research into energy efficiency advice, benchmarking, billing, financial incentives and digital media (e.g. web and television). The findings showed that electricity savings with an In Home Display were generally 2-4% higher than with a smart meter only.</p><br /><p>More recently, the Department has consulted on enabling suppliers to undertake controlled trials of innovative In Home Display alternatives when they install a compliant smart metering system. We are currently considering responses ahead of publishing decisions.</p><p><br></p><br /> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 26/10/2015 15:17:18 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

421746

registered interest
date	15/10/2015
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 assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing net metering; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	12146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <p>We have not made a specific assessment of the impact which introducing net metering could have on the UK energy system. However, we are currently consulting on the future of the feed-in tariff and will consider all stakeholder views, including any representations on net metering, as part of the government response. The consultation closes on 23rd October 2015.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 21/10/2015 10:52:37 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom previous answer version 24664 answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

419089

registered interest
date	16/09/2015
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, whether it is her policy to allow alternatives to in-home displays to be used in the smart meter rollout.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	10392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>Energy suppliers are required to offer their domestic customers an In Home Display (IHD) where they install a smart metering system, enabling consumers to visualise how much energy they use, when they use it and how much it costs them in near real time. There is strong evidence that IHDs are instrumental to energy savings, as set out in the Smart Metering Impact Assessment and the findings of the Early Learning Project published in March 2015. IHDs facilitate a significant proportion of the expected benefits of the smart metering programme (some £4.3 billion).</p><p>Energy suppliers are able to offer their customers, where they so choose, other engagement tools in addition to the IHD. However there is a lack of evidence on the enduring consumer benefits of alternative engagement tools within Great Britain. The Government is currently consulting on proposals to allow suppliers to undertake, with the Secretary of State’s approval on a case by case basis, trials of alternative energy use engagement tools to IHDs. This will help DECC to gather evidence on the performance of other approaches, to understand if the IHD requirement remains optimised for the costs and benefits accruing to consumers.</p><p>The consultation can be found on the following weblink:</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> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/10/2015 13:47:05 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

418905

registered interest
date	15/09/2015
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 assessment she has made of the potential effect of an increase in the number of SMETS1 meters installed on consumers' ability to switch energy suppliers.
tabling member constituency	Clwyd West
tabling member printed	Mr David Jones
uin	10352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The roll-out of SMETS 1 meters is enabling consumers to take control of their energy use save money and be accurately billed, as suppliers trial, test and optimise their approaches to smart meter roll-out prior to the main phase of the programme commencing next year.</p><p>SMETS1 meters will not affect consumers’ ability to switch energy suppliers, although consumers with such meters may temporarily lose smart functionality if they choose to switch to a supplier not yet offering smart services. Ofgem has introduced rules designed to help domestic consumers understand if the smart services they are receiving will be maintained when they switch supplier:</p><p><a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/ofgem-publications/41868/smart-meters-effective-switching.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/ofgem-publications/41868/smart-meters-effective-switching.pdf</a>.</p><p>The rules include a requirement that a supplier installing a SMETS1 or smart-type meter must inform the customer that they may lose meter functionality on change of supplier.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/10/2015 13:55:14 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1502 label Biography information for Mr David Jones

418906

registered interest
date	15/09/2015
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 assessment she has made of the effect on the total cost of the smart meter programme of delays in the introduction of the Data Communications Company.
tabling member constituency	Clwyd West
tabling member printed	Mr David Jones
uin	10353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>Following a proposal from the Data and Communications Company (DCC) to adopt an alternative delivery plan, the previous administration announced in March 2015 that the DCC will plan to deliver operational services from April 2016.</p><p>A Written Ministerial Statement made by the previous administration on this matter can be found here:</p><p><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/cm150305/wmstext/150305m0001.htm#15030533000006" target="_blank">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/cm150305/wmstext/150305m0001.htm#15030533000006</a></p><p>The DCC has taken account of changes in its costs in the development of its revised plan, in line with its general requirement to deliver its services in an economic and efficient manner. These costs are expected to represent an increase of less than 1% of the total costs of the programme. The programme remains on track to deliver significant net benefits to consumers.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/10/2015 13:55:57 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1502 label Biography information for Mr David Jones

418907

registered interest
date	15/09/2015
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, under what circumstances her Department would amend the requirement for energy suppliers to endeavour to install smart meters in 100 per cent of customers' homes by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Clwyd West
tabling member printed	Mr David Jones
uin	10354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government’s policy is for the benefits of smart metering to be 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. There is a sound business case for a universal roll-out.</p><p>As energy suppliers have known for a number of years, they are required under licence conditions to take all reasonable steps to install smart meters in all of their domestic customers’ premises, and smart or advanced meters in smaller non-domestic sites, by 31 December 2020. There are no plans to amend this obligation.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 12/10/2015 13:30:09 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1502 label Biography information for Mr David Jones

418431

registered interest
date	11/09/2015
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, if her Department will take steps to ensure that households which use prepayment meters do not pay higher charges than households which do not use such meters.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Dawn Butler
uin	10063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2015 answer text <p>Suppliers are required under the terms in their supply licence to ensure that differences in charges for different payment methods, which include the use of prepayment meters, reflect the costs they face to provide that payment method.</p><p>Across the market the prices of prepayment meter tariffs are now largely the same as those of standard variable tariffs and we are starting to see more improvements in the pre-payment meter market with the development of smart meters, for example E.ON is currently piloting a Smart Pay-As-You Go tariff for customers using a smart prepayment meter who then pay the same prices as the company’s direct debit customers and they expect to make the tariff more widely available to new and existing customers from next year.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 22/09/2015 12:19:17 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1489 label Biography information for Dawn Butler

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