from energy suppliers who forced—fitted the metres into their homes. claire coutinho says she has spoken to the regulator to sort compensation payouts "as soon as possible". but energy suppliers only believe about 2,500 people require compensation. well, you may remember there was huge criticism after it emerged that some vulnerable customers were wrongly having pre—payment metres, forcibly installed in their homes and off the back of that ofgem asked all energy firms to review their cases over a period of about 13 months to see whether the these procedures had been followed correctly and where they haven't, that they could offer those customers some financial redress. now ofgem say that so far around 150,000 cases have been reviewed and of those 1,500, as you say, customers have received compensation and totalling just over £340,000 between them. now, when asked about that number of payouts by laura kuenssberg this morning, the energy secretary said, as you say, was completely