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 abolish energy pre-payment meters.

Some households prefer to pay for their energy by prepayment meter as this allows them to control and budget the amount they spend and helps mitigate the risk of going into, or exacerbating, existing debt. A ban on using prepayment meters would leave court enforcement as the only recourse in cases of non-payment and large debt.