Energy: Meters

(asked on 5th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to end the use of warrants to install pre-payment meters.


Answered by
Graham Stuart Portrait
Graham Stuart
This question was answered on 13th December 2022

Neither the Government nor Ofgem, the independent regulator, collect this data at the constituency level.

Ofgem's latest data shows that the number of warrants exercised in Great Britain to install a pre-payment meter was 49,552 over 2021. Ofgem do not collect data on this in Northern Ireland.

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