Speeches

Richard Burden – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Richard Burden on 2015-12-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many households in (a) Birmingham, Northfield constituency, (b) the West Midlands and (c) the UK have prepayment meters; and what the change in the number of such meters has been in each of those areas over the last five years.

Andrea Leadsom

Data on methods of payment for domestic energy consumers are published in Quarterly Energy Prices, tables 2.4.2 and 2.5.2.

This is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/quarterly-domestic-energy-price-stastics .

The tables below show the proportion of customers within the region using pre-payment meters for each year since 2010. Data is only available at the Public Electricity Supply (PES) region level.

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

Electricity

West Midlands

15.3%

15.8%

16.3%

16.6%

17.0%

UK

15.0%

15.4%

15.8%

16.3%

16.7%

Gas

West Midlands

13.4%

14.0%

14.8%

15.3%

15.7%

GB

12.6%

13.2%

14.0%

14.5%

15.1%

Data above are produced from a sample survey (DECC’s domestic fuel inquiry).