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Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 61680, tabled on 12 October 2022

Question

Dr Alan Whitehead
Labour
Southampton, Test
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of households have a smart meter in each region of the UK as of 12 October 2022.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answer

Graham Stuart
Conservative
Beverley and Holderness
Commons

Answered on

19 October 2022

The Government’s official statistics on the proportion of households with smart meters are based on data from energy suppliers and are held for Great Britain only. The Government’s official statistics on the rollout of smart meters are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/smart-meters-statistics.

The rollout is making good progress, with more than half of energy meters in Great Britain now smart. At end June 2022 there were 29.5 million smart and advanced meters in homes and small businesses across Great Britain, including 27.8 million smart meters in domestic properties.

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