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 |
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Electricity |
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West Midlands |
15.3% |
15.8% |
16.3% |
16.6% |
17.0% |
UK |
15.0% |
15.4% |
15.8% |
16.3% |
16.7% |
Gas |
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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).
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