2030 Emissions Reduction Target: Heating Debate
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Lord Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
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2030 Emissions Reduction Target: Heating
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Lord Grantchester (Lab)
My Lords, it is an unfortunate feature of Conservative Governments that they constantly churn grant schemes—
The Lord Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
I will be very brief. A crucial component of the decarbonisation of heat in homes agenda is to have enough skilled technicians and engineers to install the various heating solutions. Can the Minister update the House on the progress of creating the necessary training opportunities?
Lord Callanan (Con)
I can indeed update the right reverend Prelate. There are a number of schemes and training competitions, and we have recently allocated tens of millions of pounds, training thousands of new installers. I am pleased to say that many of the boiler and heat pump manufacturing companies are running their own training courses, and there are now, I think, about 2,000 registered firms with the Microgeneration Certification Scheme.