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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps she is taking to help ensure households that (a) don't want and (b) are unable to have a smart meter installed can access the cheapest available energy deals.

Customers with smart meters are cheaper to serve for energy suppliers, and the Government expects the associated savings to be passed on. We are already seeing some suppliers offering cheaper tariffs for customers with smart meters or those that agree to have them installed.

The Government has acted to protect consumers regardless of meter type. That is why we introduced a market cap on energy prices which protects up to 11 million households on standard variable and default tariffs, in addition to the 4 million households protected by Ofgem’s Safeguard Tariff cap.