Question follow-through · 51456
Official Residences: Utilities
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) electricity, (b) gas and (c) water in the (i) 10 and (ii) 11 Downing Street residences are individually metered.
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 May 2025
- Answer
- 20 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) electricity, (b) gas and (c) water in the (i) 10 and (ii) 11 Downing Street residences are individually metered.
14 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2025
Answer published
The No. 10 Downing Street and No. 11 Downing Street residences are not individually metered for any listed utility.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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