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 SMETS 1 (a) electricity and (b) gas smart meters installed to date.

The Government publishes quarterly reports on the number of smart electricity and gas meters installed in Great Britain as part of its Smart Meters statistics collection, which is available here: www.gov.uk/government/collections/smart-meters-statistics.

The latest report was published on 22 December 2016 and shows that, at the end of September 2016, across the domestic and non-domestic sector, approximately (a) 2,534,000 electricity and (b) 1,829,500 gas smart meters had been installed.