Oral Answers to Questions

Siobhan Baillie Excerpts

Tuesday 28th February 2023 Commons Chamber

The Secretary of State was asked—

[Siobhan Baillie (Stroud) (Con)]

1. What steps he is taking to encourage households to install energy efficiency measures.

[Peter Gibson (Darlington) (Con)]

22. What steps he is taking to encourage households to install energy efficiency measures.

[The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero (Grant Shapps)]

The Government have made good progress, with 47% of homes in England now having reached the Government’s 2035 target of achieving energy performance certificate level C and above, which is up from 14% in 2010.

[Siobhan Baillie]

I want to talk about radiator sludge, as I went to see ADEY Innovation Ltd, a company in my constituency, where I learned that dirty radiators increase energy bills by 7% and people may be getting 47% less heat through poor water quality. Yet in the Government’s £25 million energy efficiency advice campaign there is nowt about the benefits of magnetic filtration and other affordable things that companies such as ADEY Innovation offer households. Will my right hon. Friend agree to work with me to include this advice and meet to discuss this?

[Grant Shapps]

My hon. Friend is right to worry about radiator sludge, and I fully support her in her concerns. I am pleased to tell her that in this Parliament and into the next we have committed £12.6 billion to campaigns to ensure not just that we tackle the radiator sludge, but that we do things throughout homes to improve their insulation and other technologies. I would be happy to meet her.