Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many homes in (a) York Central constituency and (b) City of York local authority area have a prepayment electricity meter.

DECC do not collect or hold data at this level of disaggregation.

From DECC’s domestic meter point data, there were 77,000 domestic standard electricity meters and an additional 10,000 economy 7 meters in the York Unitary Authority in 2013. Data is not published for the York Central constituency:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/sub-national-electricity-consumption-data

DECC estimate that 17% of standard electricity customers in Yorkshire, used prepayment meters in the latest quarter. This data is only available at the public electricity supply (PES) region level. Data is not available for the York central constituency or the York Unitary Authority Area:

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