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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of households that have a pre-payment (a) gas and (b) electricity meter in (i) Manchester Gorton, (ii) City of Manchester, (iii) Greater Manchester, (iv) the North West and (v) England.

As Ofgem notes in its latest Consumer Protection report (https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/consumer-protection-report-autumn-2021), there were around 4.1 million electricity and 3.3 million gas customers on a pre-payment meters in Great Britain in 2020.

The Department has not undertaken an assessment of figures for these specific areas.