Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 42378

Electricity: Meters

Tabled: 28 March 2025
Answered: 3 April 2025
Named Day

Question

Graham Leadbitter

Scottish National PartyMoray West, Nairn and Strathspey

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for his policies of practice of classifying communal electricity meters in residential buildings as business rather than

Answer

Miatta Fahnbulleh
Communal areas in apartment blocks are charged on a non-domestic energy contract as the organisation who is responsible for them is a business. As such, domestic consumers living in the apartment block are usually charged a non-domestic energy rate for th...

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