Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his department has made any impact assessment on the relationship between intermittent funding cycles and the quality of retrofit delivery outcomes.

The Government understands the value of providing long-term certainty wherever possible to support the supply chain, local authorities, and social housing providers to invest, train, and plan accordingly.

That’s why, as part of the £15 billion Warm Homes Plan, low-income grant funding will continue to be delivered through the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund (WH:SHF) and Warm Homes: Local Grant (WH:LG) as planned, honouring existing funding agreements.

We have also increased delivery windows, with the WH:LG and WH:SHF running for three years or more (2025-2028), representing the longest delivery window for these types of schemes to date, moving away from short, stop start funding cycles that previously constrained delivery.

We will say more about the evolution of low-income schemes in Spring 2026.