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Mr. Burden
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the number of domestic prepayment water meters installed in each water company area.
Mr. Maclean
[holding answer 1 April 1993]: I understand that the number of domestic prepayment water meters which have been installed to date by water companies is as follows:
| Number | |
| Bristol Water plc | 10 |
| North West Water Ltd. | 20 |
| Severn Trent Water Ltd. | 44 |
| Southern Water Services Ltd. | 70 |
| South Staffordshire Water plc | 30 |
| Wessex Water Services Ltd. | 51 |
Mr. Burden
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list, by water company area, the numbers and percentage of households with domestic water meters; and what the equivalent figures were for (a) 1979, (b) 1983 and (c) 1987.
Mr. Maclean
[holding answer 1 April 1993]: Current estimates are shown in the table: similar information for earlier years is not available centrally.
| Water company | Metered supply households (000s) | Proportion per cent. |
| Anglian Water Services Ltd. | 48 | 3·3 |
| Bournemouth and West Hampshire Water Company | 5 | 3·3 |
| Bristol Water plc | 14 | 3·5 |
| Cambridge Water Company | 4 | 3·7 |
| Chester Waterworks Company | 1 | 2·3 |
| Cholderton and District Water Company Ltd. | <1 | 1·5 |
| Dwr Cymru Cyfyngedig | 29 | 2·8 |
| East Surrey Water plc | 3 | 2·6 |
| Essex Water plc | 10 | 1·9 |
| Folkestone and Dover Water Services Ltd. | 2 | 2·8 |
| Hartlepools Water Company | <1 | 0·1 |
| Mid Kent Water plc | 4 | 2·2 |
| Mid Southern Water plc | 11 | 4·3 |
| North East Water plc | 6 | 1·1 |
| North Surrey Water Ltd. | 8 | 4·5 |
| North West Water Ltd. | 50 | 1·9 |
| Northumbrian Water Ltd. | 2 | 0·4 |
| Portsmouth Water plc | <1 | 1 |
| Severn Trent Water Ltd. | 134 | 4·9 |
| South East Water Ltd. | 9 | 3·8 |
| South Staffordshire Water plc | 9 | 2·0 |
| South West Water Services Ltd. | 24 | 4·2 |
| Southern Water Services Ltd. | 90 | 10·5 |
| Suffolk Water plc | 4 | 3·9 |
| Sutton District Water plc | <1 | 0·3 |
| Tendring Hundred Water Services Ltd. | 3 | 4·8 |
| Thames Water Utilities Ltd. | 96 | 3·3 |
| Three Valleys Water Services plc | 22 | 2·5 |
| Wessex Water Services Ltd. | 21 | 5·0 |
| Wrexham and East Denbighshire Water Company | 3 | 4·6 |
| York Waterworks plc | <1 | 0·1 |
| Yorkshire Water Services Ltd. | 45 | 2·7 |
| England and Wales | 657 | 3·4 |
Note: Proportions may not tally exactly due to rounding.