To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when he expects (a) the smart metering home area network tests to be undertaken and (b) the conclusions of those tests to be published.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change when he expects (a) the smart metering home area network tests to be undertaken and (b) the conclusions of those tests to be published.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether his Department has examined smart metering solutions currently available as models to be able to meet the majority of its smart meter roll-out programme objectives.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change whether his Department has examined smart metering solutions currently available as models to be able to meet the majority of its smart meter roll-out programme objectives.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what consideration he has given to ensuring flexibility in his planned smart meter procurement to allow the later addition of smart water metering.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what consideration he has given to ensuring flexibility in his planned smart meter procurement to allow the later addition of smart water metering.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what steps he is taking to ensure small and medium-sized business can participate in delivering the smart metering roll-out programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what steps he is taking to ensure small and medium-sized business can participate in delivering the smart metering roll-out programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the statement of 23 November 2011, Official Report, column 299, on annual energy statement, what assessment he has made of the effect on annual energy bills of the Government's smart metering roll-out programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the statement of 23 November 2011, Official Report, column 299, on annual energy statement, what assessment he has made of the effect on annual energy bills of the Government's smart metering roll-out programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what steps he is taking to ensure that the introduction of smart metering facilitates a wider choice of tariff structures.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what steps he is taking to ensure that the introduction of smart metering facilitates a wider choice of tariff structures.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the average cost to energy retailers of supplying and installing a smart (a) gas and (b) electricity meter.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the average cost to energy retailers of supplying and installing a smart (a) gas and (b) electricity meter.