Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether it remains his Department's target to install 600,000 heat pumps per year by 2028; and what recent estimate he has made of the number of heat pumps that have been installed in (a) total and (b) the last 12 months.

The Government's target remains to install 600,000 heat pumps per year by 2028 and it is putting in place an ambitious package of policies to achieve this.

From 2008 to the end of March 2023, the Microgeneration Certification Scheme Installations Database shows that 187,651 heat pump installations were registered. The number of heat pump installations in the 12 months to the end of March 2023 was 28,018. However, heat pumps installed without Government funding support and those in new buildings are not typically recorded in the database, with industry sources suggesting installations in new homes could make up a significant proportion of overall heat pump deployment.