Energy: Housing
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to encourage energy efficiency improvements in social and private housing.
Answered by Martin McCluskey
The £15 billion Warm Homes Plan is the biggest public investment in home upgrades in British history, supporting millions of households with solar panels, batteries, heat pumps and heat networks.
A total of £4.4 billion of grant funding has been allocated to low-income households, delivered initially through the Warm Homes: Local Grant and the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund.
Our new Warm Homes Fund of up to £5 billion will make investments in and loans to the home upgrade sector and the expanded Boiler Upgrade Scheme, worth £2.7 billion, provides grants for heat pumps to all eligible households in England and Wales.
Government is also standing up for renters with new minimum energy efficiency standards in the social and private rented sectors.
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