Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make it his policy to upgrade all fuel-poor homes, including those which are owner occupied, to EPC C by 2028, in line with the Government’s target for social housing and privately rented premises to be EPC C by 2028.

In England, the Government’s statutory fuel poverty target is to ensure that as many fuel poor households as is reasonably practicable achieve a minimum energy efficiency rating of a Band C by 2030. The Government is delivering against this target through multiple energy efficiency schemes including the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund, the Home Upgrade Grant and the Energy Company Obligation.

There has been good progress improving the energy efficiency of households with 47% of homes in England now having reached the Government’s 2035 target of achieving EPC C levels, up from 14% in 2010.