Oral Answers to Questions

Munira Wilson Excerpts

Tuesday 16th November 2021 Commons Chamber

[Greg Hands]

We are a Government for the whole United Kingdom. The hon. Member will know that Northern Ireland is importantly different from Great Britain in its electricity generation, grid and network. Overall, the UK’s nuclear capability will offer fantastic job opportunities—high-skill, high-tech jobs—for people from right the way across the United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland.

[Munira Wilson (Twickenham) (LD)]

13. What steps his Department is taking to support greener, better-insulated homes.

[The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Kwasi Kwarteng)]

We are decarbonising heat through the renewable heat incentive, with an estimated £1 billion this year, and we have announced the boiler upgrade scheme, the green heat network fund and the launch of the green gas support scheme later this month.

[Munira Wilson]

Zero carbon homes was a Liberal Democrat policy that the Tories scrapped after the coalition. That means we now need to retrofit a million new homes. Will the Secretary of State commit to a zero carbon homes standard once again for all new homes built in this country?

[Kwasi Kwarteng]

I am pleased to inform the hon. Lady that we have a heat and building strategy that sets out clear plans and clear ambitions for decarbonising heat, particularly sources of heat in buildings and in homes.