Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make it his policy to provide energy bills support to households on prepayment meters by directly crediting users’ energy accounts; and if he will make a statement.
A prepayment meter account can be directly credited with support payments where the household has a smart meter, and that has been the method by which Government has provided energy bill support to such households.
Traditional prepayment meters operate with a key card that is needed to add credit to the meter, so a manual intervention will always be always required in order to apply support payments to such households.