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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many homes will be retrofitted to reduce fuel consumption by the end of (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.

The Government has committed to invest £6.6 billion across this parliament to support the decarbonisation of buildings.

This funding includes:

• The Local Authority Delivery scheme: almost £787million has been allocated to the scheme across 3 phases and it is forecasted to upgrade to up to 75,000 homes.
• The Home Upgrade Grant: the first £219 million phase is expected to upgrade up to 10,000 homes during 2023.
• The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund: the £61 million Demonstrator is forecast to complete the upgrade of around 2,000 homes in 2022. The £179 million Wave 1 is expected to upgrade around 20,000 homes from 2022 to 2023

Meanwhile, the Government has placed an obligation on larger energy suppliers to install energy-efficiency and heating measures in Britain’s homes. The current iteration of the scheme, ECO3, began in October 2018. A total of 1,039,500 measures have been installed to date. In 2021, approximately 398,200 measures were installed in around 153,100 households.