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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the level of availability of grants for the replacement of storage heaters in cold homes.

Storage heaters can be replaced under the Energy Company Obligation (ECO), specifically Affordable Warmth, the part of the scheme aimed at low income and vulnerable households. Government is currently consulting on ECO for 2018-22 which would see the whole scheme focused on low income and vulnerable households and we are proposing that storage heaters could be replaced in a wider set of circumstances.