Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many and what proportion of households in (a) England and (b) the UK used (i) pre-payment, (ii) direct debit and (iii) standard credit methods for paying for energy in each year since 2010; and what proportion of each such group of customers was categorised as fuel poor.

Data on methods of payment for domestic energy consumers are published in Quarterly Energy Prices, tables 2.4.2 and 2.5.2.

This is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/quarterly-domestic-energy-price-stastics.