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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on the number of times that Northern Powergrid has exercised the provision in section 9(1) (a) of Schedule 6 of the Electricity Act 1989 to enter a person’s property to place a new electric line in that property in the last 12 months.

There is no requirement for Northern Powergrid or the other Distribution Network Operators to provide this information to the Department. Therefore, this information is not collected and, as a consequence, we do not hold it.