Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January to Question 114831 on Powers of Entry: Meters, if his Department will request Ofgem to (a) make an estimate of how many households in which a resident is (i) over state pension age, (ii) under 18 years old, (iii) disabled and (iv) chronically sick have had a pre-payment meter force-fitted since 1 October 2022 and (b) publish that estimate.

Ofgem does not hold this data.

My Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State’s recent letter to suppliers sets out that suppliers must identify where a vulnerability, such as the above mentioned, exists among prepayment customers, and take appropriate action.