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173068

registered interest
date	12/01/2015
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, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2014, Official Report, column 524W, on Supply Estimates, which elements of the roll out of smart meters are being funded by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	220385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>The funding referred to relates solely to the expenditure on the Government part of the Smart Metering Implementation Programme within the Department of Energy and Climate Change. The Department does not fund energy suppliers, energy consumers or industry delivery bodies such as the Data and Communications Company or Smart Energy GB through this Programme.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 15/01/2015 17:12:25 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

173069

registered interest
date	12/01/2015
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, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2014, Official Report, column 524W, on Supply Estimates, what proportion of the total cost of the roll out of smart meters is being met from the public purse; and what criteria his Department used to decide on that proportion.
tabling member constituency	Don Valley
tabling member printed	Caroline Flint
uin	220386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>The only expenditure relating to the Smart Metering Implementation Programme that comes from the public purse is the direct cost to Government of delivering the Programme.</p><p>This represents around 1% of the Programme’s total costs.</p><p>DECC’s budget for the Smart Metering Implementation Programme is set annually through the Business Planning Cycle and is based on the programme of work to be carried out to achieve the programme objectives. The budget is not set as a proportion of the total cost of the roll-out of smart meters. The roll-out has been designed to be led by industry, with Government taking a strategic role of oversight.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 15/01/2015 17:10:59 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	389 label Biography information for Caroline Flint

172179

registered interest
date	06/01/2015
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 he has made of the likely level of any extra funds the Date Communications Company may request before May 2015 regarding the smart meter roll-out.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	219916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>In line with its licence requirements, the Data and Communications Company (DCC) published a draft Charging Statement in December 2014 for its service charges for the Regulatory Year ending 31 March 2016. This Charging Statement will be published in a form approved by Ofgem in accordance with the DCC’s Licence on 31 March 2015.</p><p>The draft Charging Statement notes that actual costs may vary owing to a number of uncertainties, one of which is the proposed changes to the DCC’s Plan and Implementation Milestones, consulted on by the DCC late last year. No decisions have been taken on this, and therefore the additional costs are not yet finalised. DCC’s consultation estimates the additional costs arising from the revised plan to be in the region of £60 million - £90 million. These costs would be recovered from the DCC’s service users over a number of years. The DCC is regulated by Ofgem, which conducts an ex post review of DCC’s costs to ensure that they are economically and efficiently incurred.</p><p>The procurement of the service providers for the GB-wide smart meters data and communication systems, completed in September 2013, was delivered £375 million below the estimated costs set out in our January 2013 Impact Assessment.</p><p>The latest Impact Assessment, published in January 2014, estimates the total costs of the Programme to be about £10.9 billion, with total benefits of about £17.1 billion, providing a strong business case for the roll-out with net benefits of £6 billion.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 15/01/2015 15:13:13 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

172184

registered interest
date	06/01/2015
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 projections his Department has made of the scale-up of smart meter installations between now and the 2020 target end date.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	219915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>DECC obtains information from energy suppliers regarding their plans for rolling out smart meters, and publishes aggregated projections in its annual progress report. The latest report (third version) was issued on December 11th. It is available online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/third-annual-progress-report-on-the-roll-out-of-smart-meters" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/third-annual-progress-report-on-the-roll-out-of-smart-meters</a>.</p><p>The report includes a chart on page 16 which shows the latest annual projections for large energy suppliers until 2020.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 13/01/2015 17:49:00 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

171119

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
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 progress he has made on the mass rollout of the Smart Meter programme.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	219349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>Good progress is being made. Details of some key developments since December 2013 are set out in the Government’s ‘Third Annual Report on the Roll-out of Smart Meters’, published on 11 December 2014:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/third-annual-progress-report-on-the-roll-out-of-smart-meters" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/third-annual-progress-report-on-the-roll-out-of-smart-meters</a>.</p><p>Developments over the last 12 months include:</p><ul><li>the launch of Smart Energy GB in July 2014 and the start of the public-facing campaign to communicate the benefits of smart meters to consumers;</li><li>the completion in November of the notification to the European Commission of key technical documents, including the second iteration of the Smart Metering Equipment Technical Specifications (SMETS2), the Communications Hub Technical Specifications, the Great Britain Companion Specification and the Commercial Product Assurance Security Characteristics. These give industry players a stable platform for building, testing and deploying their equipment and systems;</li><li>the further development of the Smart Energy Code, the legal framework setting out the rights and obligations for the different industry parties that use the smart metering system. During 2014, the Government introduced a number of important parts to the Code, including those areas required for testing;</li><li>the recent completion by the DCC of a consultation on changes to its workplan to build and test its data and communication services, for decision in the new year.</li><li>the continued installation of SMETS1 smart meters in homes and businesses (see below).</li></ul><p>Extensive preparations are being made by energy suppliers and other industry players, including in the areas of meter procurement, finance, back office systems and process readiness, and staff recruitment and training. We will continue to work with those organisations that have made less progress to ensure they are ready to deliver the benefits of smart meters to their customers.</p><p>A number of energy suppliers are continuing to install smart and advanced meters in people’s homes and businesses, allowing their consumers to receive benefits now. Information on the number of smart meters installed by seven of the larger energy suppliers in quarter three 2014 is set out in the Government’s ‘Smart Meters, Great Britain, Quarterly report to end September 2014’, published on 18 December 2014:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistical-release-and-data-smart-meters-great-britain-quarter-3-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistical-release-and-data-smart-meters-great-britain-quarter-3-2014</a>.</p><p>The report shows that there are now 543,900 smart meters in domestic properties and 515,300 smart and advanced meters in smaller non-domestic sites now operating across Great Britain.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 05/01/2015 15:13:15 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

169816

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
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 he has made of the (a) number of prepayment meter customers who self-disconnected at least once in each year since 2010 and (b) total number of prepayment meter customers in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	218286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on the number of pre-payment meter customers who self-disconnected.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 17/12/2014 16:02:45 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

169471

registered interest
date	10/12/2014
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 open data requirements have been included in the implementation of smart meters.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	218178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The Smart Metering technical and security architecture is based on a suite of agreed, open standards, reflecting the Government’s strategy to facilitate the development of third party innovative solutions for consumer devices. Consumer consumption data is stored securely on the meter, rather than in any central database. Consumers can give consent to authorised third parties to access this data via the Data and Communications Company, or they can securely connect devices through their Home Area Network to access the data locally.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 17/12/2014 16:14:37 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

169093

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have held with the energy industry concerning efficiency savings that could be made by sharing procurement, assets and information during the nationwide smart meter rollout.
tabling member printed	Lord Tope
uin	HL3583
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government does not object to industry parties co-ordinating their activities in accordance with the rules of competition law. It has developed a governance structure for the Smart Metering Programme that enables the Government, industry and other parties to share information and discuss a range of potential improvements to the efficiency of industry-wide processes and practices. This includes the establishment of groups dedicated to technical and business processes and industry-wide installation and safety issues.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 16/12/2014 16:51:08 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	1703 label Biography information for Lord Tope

169094

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they will monitor efficiency savings made by the energy industry through sharing procurement, assets and information during the nationwide smart meter roll out.
tabling member printed	Lord Tope
uin	HL3584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>The smart meter roll-out is being led by energy suppliers, who operate in a competitive market. This is expected to deliver the roll-out in the most cost-effective way. Government is developing a reporting framework which will be used to monitor efficiency savings made during the roll-out.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 16/12/2014 16:30:01 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma
tabling member	1703 label Biography information for Lord Tope

169095

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have made an assessment as to the benefits of delivering smart meter roll out and national home energy efficiency programmes together; and if not, whether there are plans to do so.
tabling member printed	Lord Tope
uin	HL3585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government considered the potential for delivering smart meter rollout and national home efficiency programmes together in the course of developing the smart meter Consumer Engagement Strategy in 2012:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/smart-meter-consumer-engagement-strategy" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/smart-meter-consumer-engagement-strategy</a></p><p><br>The Government recognised that the smart meter installation process provides an opportunity to support other home energy efficiency programmes and it asked suppliers to consider how they can bring together obligations to deliver initiatives such as the Affordable Warmth element of the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) with the smart meter roll-out. In addition, energy suppliers are required to comply with an Installation Code of Practice that requires installers to demonstrate the smart metering system, offer energy efficiency advice, and inform the consumer how they can obtain additional and impartial information or assistance in improving energy efficiency. This includes, for example, generic information about programmes such as the Green Deal and ECO.</p> answering member printed Baroness Verma question first answered 17/12/2014 14:37:29 answering member 3790 label Biography information for Baroness Verma attachment 1 file name 7224-gov-resp-sm-consumer-engagement.pdf title Smart metering: govt response to consultation
tabling member	1703 label Biography information for Lord Tope