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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress has been made on the plans of the Data Communications Company to (a) enrol and (b) adopt SMETS1 meters; what information he holds on the timetable for the completion of those plans; and whether the services of the DCC need to be fully scalable and reliable before those plans can be completed.

Work to design, build and test a service to enrol and adopt SMETS1 meters continues. This will see the Data and Communications Company (DCC) link its systems to at least two companies already providing SMETS1 services to energy suppliers at scale. The DCC’s current plan is that the enrolment service for the first cohort of SMETS1 meters will go live at the end of the year. We expect to publish the Government’s conclusions to consultations in this area later this summer and to consult on enrolment of the remaining cohorts of SMETS1 meters.