Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many households in England are supplied with metered water; and what percentage of all households this represents.

There was a total of 24,009,150 household properties based on data reported by companies in England through their annual review of the Water Resources Management Plan for the year 2022/23.

Of this, the total number of metered household properties was 14,299,320 and a further 374,860 were metered household void properties.

As a result, for 2022/23 59.6% of household properties across English water companies were metered excluding void properties or 61.1% household properties were metered including void properties.

Note - a void household property is a household property that is connected to public water supply but not currently being billed by the water company as they have been classified as empty.