Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many warrants have been granted to energy companies (a) nationally, (b) in York and (c) in York, Central constituency to move a customer to a pre-payment meter in each month of the last two years.

Neither the Government nor Ofgem, the independent regulator, collect this data at the constituency level.

Ofgem's latest data shows that the number of warrants exercised in Great Britain to install a pre-payment meter was 49,552 over 2021. Ofgem do not collect data on this in Northern Ireland.