Energy: Conservation

(asked on 9th February 2021) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to £1 billion of funding set out under Point 7: Greener Buildings of the Government's Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution, published in November 2020, how much of that funding will be allocated to the (a) Green Homes Grant, (b) Public Sector Decarbonisation scheme, (c) Homes Upgrade Grant and (d) Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund.


Answered by
Anne-Marie Trevelyan Portrait
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 22nd February 2021

As part of my Rt. Hon. Friend the Prime Minister's Ten Point Plan, £320 million of funding has been allocated the Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme for 21/22 to make homes and buildings more energy efficient and less carbon intensive.

The Government is committed to delivering our net zero target and will take further steps to decarbonise the UK economy. The Prime Minister recently set out in his Ten Point Plan a £1bn investment to make our homes, schools, and hospitals greener, warmer and energy efficient. Further details on funding will be announced in due course.

In November 2020, the Prime Minister’s Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution announced the introduction of the Home Upgrade Grant. We are committing £150 million through the Home Upgrade Grant to help some of the poorest homes become more energy efficient and cheaper to heat with low-carbon energy. The Home Upgrade Grant will support low-income households with upgrades to the worst-performing off-gas-grid homes in England. These upgrades will create warmer homes at lower cost and will support low-income families with the switch to low-carbon heating, contributing to both fuel poverty and net zero targets. The Home Upgrade Grant is due to commence in early 2022.

The Autumn 2020 Spending Review committed a further £60million of funding for the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund to continue upgrading the least efficient social housing. This funding will support the Government’s 10-point plan and makes further progress towards delivering the Government’s commitment to invest in the energy performance of homes.

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