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Housing: Energy

Asked by Rachael MaskellLabour (Co-op)Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled Answered 8 June 2026UIN 4250

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what support is being provided to local authorities to retrofit existing housing stock to improve climate resilience, in the context of the Climate Change Committee’s Well Adapted UK report.

Answered by Martin McCluskey

For low income and social households, the Warm Homes: Local Grant and Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund provides funding to support the installation of technologies including heat pumps alongside solar PV, batteries and insulation. From 2027/2028 we plan to integrate these schemes into a single low-income scheme.

Over the course of this Parliament, we also intend to introduce the most appropriate and cost-effective passive cooling measures within our capital funded schemes focused on improving the homes of fuel poor consumers and social housing. We will prioritise higher impact, lower cost and lower regret measures to ensure best value for money.

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