Energy: Meters
(asked on 15th November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people were on pre-payment meters in each of the last five years.
Ofgem monitors and publishes information on prepayment meters customer accounts in Great Britain; it does not monitor the gas and electricity supply market in Northern Ireland, as this is a devolved matter.
The table below shows either the number or proportion of domestic customers paying by prepayment meters in Great Britain in 2011 to 2015.
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | |||
| No. of PPMs customers | Proportion of PPMs customers | No. of PPMs customers | Proportion of PPMs customers | No. of PPMs customers | Proportion of PPMs customers |
Gas | 2,912,662 | - | 3,099,245 | - | 3,282,080 | - |
Electricity | 4,094,890 | - | 4,256,065 | - | 4,422,504 | - |
| 2014 | 2015 | ||
| No. of PPMs customers | Proportion of PPMs customers | No. of PPMs customers | Proportion of PPMs customers |
Gas | 3,399,158 | 15% | - | 15.3% |
Electricity | 4,496,181 | 17% | - | 16.6% |