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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to his Oral contribution to the Urgent Question on Forced installation of prepayment meters in homes by energy companies on 23 January 2023, what reduction targets his Department has set for energy suppliers to end the practice of forced prepayment meter installations.

Several energy suppliers have already paused forced installations of prepayment meters by warrant this winter, and my Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State has called on more suppliers to stop voluntarily the practice and make greater effort to help the most vulnerable as part of the 5-point plan to tackle supplier bad behaviour.

Reduction targets on forced prepayment meter installations have not been made but the Department will be discussing these matters further with stakeholders including energy suppliers.