Housing: Energy

(asked on 19th April 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, what plans his Department has to help improve energy efficiency in homes in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England.


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

The Government recently announced an extra £300 million of funding to be invested to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the nation’s homes through energy efficiency and low carbon heating schemes, delivered through the Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery (LAD) Scheme and Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF). This brings the total government funding for energy efficiency and low carbon heating in 2021/22 to over £1.3 billion.

Through the Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery scheme, £500m has now been granted to Local Authorities in Phase 1 and Local Energy Hubs for Phase 2. Delivery has begun and will upgrade the energy efficiency of around 50,000 homes of low-income households across England. The full list of projects awarded funding under the Local Authority Delivery scheme so far can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/green-homes-grant-local-authority-delivery-successful-local-authorities.

In addition to the Local Authority Delivery scheme, the SHDF (Demonstrator) project launched in 2020 and has subsequently awarded £62m of funding to social landlords across England and Scotland. The full list of projects awarded funding under the SHDF (Demonstrator) scheme can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-housing-decarbonisation-fund-demonstrator-successful-bids.

Building on the SHDF (Demonstrator), there will be around £160m of further funding for the first wave of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund in 2021/22. This will be launched in the autumn, and represents an increase from the £60m funding announced by my Rt. Hon. Friend Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer at the Autumn 2020 Spending Review.

In addition, the Home Upgrade Grant has been allocated an initial £150m to specifically support low-income households with upgrades to the worst-performing off-gas-grid homes in England. The Home Upgrade Grant is due to commence delivery in early 2022.

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