Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, If he will make an estimate of the number of homes that have been retrofitted through the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund in Leeds North West constituency since the introduction of that fund.

The Government is committed to investing £6.6bn in energy efficiency, with the Autumn Statement announcing an additional £6bn from 2025-2028.

The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Wave 1 awarded around £179m of grant funding, delivering from 2022 into 2023, of which £9.5m was awarded to Leeds City Council to retrofit 630 homes. SHDF Demonstrator has retrofitted 190 homes through Leeds City Council. The SHDF Wave 2.1 competition, which closed on 18th November 2022, will allocate up to £800m of grant funding, with successful projects likely to be notified in March 2023.