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1469320

registered interest
date	10/06/2022
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 have prepayment meters or (a) electricity and (b) gas; and what proportion of each category has smart meters.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	15735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>Official statistics show that, at the end of 2021, 14% of households had a prepayment service; the proportion is the same for both gas and electricity. The latest statistics on Quarterly Energy Prices are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/quarterly-energy-prices-march-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/quarterly-energy-prices-march-2022</a>.</p><p>The Government’s official statistics on the rollout of smart meters show that, at the end of 2021, 13% of all smart meters were in prepayment mode, broadly in line with levels of prepayment meters in the market. These statistics are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/smart-meters-in-great-britain-quarterly-update-december-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/smart-meters-in-great-britain-quarterly-update-december-2021</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 20/06/2022 15:15:12 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1463501

registered interest
date	17/05/2022
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 steps he is taking to help ensure that people on an energy meter do not experience periods with no energy provision.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	3663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2022 answer text <p>Ofgem has rules in place that require energy suppliers to provide extra support specifically for prepayment meter customers. These include an obligation on suppliers to make emergency and friendly-hours credit available to pre-payment meter customers. Where a supplier identifies that a prepayment customer is self-disconnecting or self-rationing their supply, they must offer additional support credit.</p><p> </p><p>Consumers in financial distress should talk to their energy supplier, who will be able to discuss their personal circumstances and consider options to help, including reassessing, reducing or pausing payments. Ofgem requires all suppliers to provide a free Priority Services Register service for vulnerable consumers offering a range of services on safety, access and communication.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 23/05/2022 15:39:05 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1463852

registered interest
date	17/05/2022
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 what plans they have to introduce a deficit fund to remove £1,000 off the annual bills of struggling households on pre-payment meters.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL327
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2022 answer text <p>The energy price cap ensures 4.5 million prepayment meter customers pay a fair price for their energy. The Government announced a further £15 billion package of support to help with the cost of living on 26 May, on top of the £22 billion already announced this year. This means almost eight million most vulnerable households will get £1,200 of one-off support in total this year, with all domestic electricity customers receiving at least £400.</p><p> </p><p>The Ability to Pay principal set by Ofgem in the supply licence requires suppliers to provide appropriate support to households which are struggling to pay their energy bills by setting up repayment plans based on a customer’s ability to pay, and by directing them to further support services.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 31/05/2022 15:51:40 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1457511

registered interest
date	14/04/2022
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 estimate he has made of the number of energy company meter readers that have lost their jobs in the last ten years.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	153948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2022 answer text <p>Smart meters are modernising the energy system, bringing an end to estimated bills and manual meter reads, which reduces costs and improves service for consumers.</p><p> </p><p>Energy suppliers are responsible for managing their workforce and the provision of metering and billing services. They have adopted a number of approaches to their changing workforce requirements, including re-training meter readers for other roles such as smart meter installers.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 21/04/2022 16:08:22 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1457512

registered interest
date	14/04/2022
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 smart meters have been installed in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	153949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2022 answer text <p>The smart meter rollout is making good progress, with 27.8 million smart and advanced meters in homes and small businesses across Great Britain as of the end of December 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s official statistics on the rollout of smart meters are available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/smart-meters-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/smart-meters-statistics</a>.</p><p> </p><p>These statistics, based on data from energy suppliers, cover all smart meter installations from 2012 onwards.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 21/04/2022 16:09:31 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1457554

registered interest
date	14/04/2022
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, pursuant to the Answer of 5 April 2022 to Question 148402 on Energy: Prices, whether it is technically possible to equalise charges between standard and pre-payment meters; and if he will vary the Supply Licence Conditions referred to accordingly.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	154424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2022 answer text <p>This is a regulatory matter for Ofgem.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 21/04/2022 15:57:20 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1457778

registered interest
date	14/04/2022
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 discussions he has had with representatives of energy companies on the reasons for the increase in the day-to-day connectivity charge for smart metering for (a) existing and (b) new customers.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Richard Holden
uin	154463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>Energy consumers are not subject to a day-to-day connectivity charge for having a smart meter.</p><p> </p><p>Energy suppliers may apply standing charges, a fixed charge that suppliers pass on to cover the cost of providing a live supply, for each metering point whether for a smart or traditional meter.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/04/2022 11:07:58 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden

1455926

registered interest
date	30/03/2022
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 recent estimate he has made of the proportion of households that have a pre-payment (a) gas and (b) electricity meter in (i) Stockport constituency, (ii) the Borough of Stockport, (iii) Greater Manchester, (iv) the North West and (v) England.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	150275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2022 answer text <p>Regional data on electricity customers on prepayment tariffs are published as part of the Quarterly Energy Prices statistical series here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/quarterly-energy-prices#2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/quarterly-energy-prices#2022</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Energy data is not collated at a constituency level.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 19/04/2022 14:01:14 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1455976

registered interest
date	30/03/2022
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 recent estimate he has made of (a) the number of installed smart meters that are not on the national database, (b) the number of individuals being charged for electricity supplies on the basis of smart meters that are not on the national database, (c) the extent of improper billing by electricity suppliers on the basis of smart meters that are not on the national database and (d) what steps he is taking to ensure that all installed smart meters are recorded on the national database.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	150135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>There is no national database for smart electricity or gas meter billing information. Billing is the responsibility of individual energy suppliers. Energy consumption is recorded and securely held by the meter whether smart or traditional. Energy suppliers access this data remotely or via manual meters reads for billing purposes.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 25/04/2022 15:40:43 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1453709

registered interest
date	23/03/2022
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, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing support to users of prepayment energy meters who are unable to make prepayment.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	145815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2022 answer text <p>Ofgem has rules in place that require energy suppliers to provide extra support for customers using prepayment meters. These include an obligation on suppliers to make emergency and friendly-hours credit available to all pre-payment meter customers. Where a supplier identifies that a prepayment customer is self-disconnecting or self-rationing their supply, they must also offer additional support credit. When assessing how a customer will repay any credit offered, suppliers must consider their ability to pay.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is already taking action to support households with rising energy bills through a package of support worth £9.1 billion in 2022-23. This includes a £150 Council Tax rebate for bands A-D for properties in England, with funding provided to the Devolved Administrations for comparable provision, £144 million discretionary funding for local authorities and a £200 energy bill reduction from October 2022 to be recouped over 5 years from 2023. This support is available to customers with prepayment meters.</p><p> </p><p>As announced in the Spring Statement, the Government continues to provide targeted cost of living support for households most in need. From April, an additional £500 million will be provided to help households with the cost of essentials, bringing total funding for this support to £1 billion. In England, £421 million will be provided to extend the existing Household Support Fund, whilst the devolved administrations will receive £79 million through the Barnett formula.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 01/04/2022 12:22:36 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick