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 take steps to ban the use of pre-payment meters.

There are no plans to ban pre-payment meters. Pre-payment meters provide an important option that consumers can choose to assist with managing their energy payments. The independent regulator Ofgem has strict rules governing when suppliers can require a pre-payment meter to be installed and for protecting consumers who have one.