2026-FOI-009

23/07/2026

Dear [redacted information]

REQUEST UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2002 (FOISA) 

As part of your email dated 02/07/2026, you requested a copy of the Excel spreadsheet mentioned in a letter from Ofgem to Consumer Scotland (April 2026) published on our website.

As this is a request for information, we have treated this as a Freedom of Information request under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA).

Your request 

Your email noted:

“The letter from Ofgem to you mentions an excel spreadsheet attached to the response. It may have been overlooked that this excel file has not been made available to view or download from your website…Therefore, please do either publish or send this excel file to me.”

Our response

Please find attached to the email a copy of the requested excel file. The file contains a breakdown of the approximate number of Radio Teleswitch (RTS) meters expected to be switched off during Stage 3 of the RTS Phase-Out.

Please note the graph is interactive.

Interactive Excel file

Your right to request a review 

If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response, by writing to;

Sam Ghibaldan, 

Chief Executive

Consumer Scotland

Thistle House,

91 Haymarket Terrace

Edinburgh,

EH12 5HD

Or by email to:  corporateservices@consumer.scot

Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 40 working days from the date when you received this letter.  We will complete the review in accordance with FOISA as soon as possible, and not later than 20 working days from the day following the date we receive your review request.  

If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner.  More detailed information on your appeal rights is available on the Commissioner’s website at:

https://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourRights/Unhappywiththeresponse/AppealingtoCommissioner.aspx

Yours sincerely

[redacted information]

Data Protection Officer

Consumer Scotland

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