Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he plans to take steps to help increase the number of training places available for heating engineers to learn to install heat pumps.

On March 2nd 2023, the Government announced a £5m Heat Training Grant to support trainees in England undertaking training relevant to heat pumps and heat networks. This is expected to support 10,000 training opportunities up to 2025.

The training grant comes in addition to the £15m the Government has already committed since 2020 to develop skills in the energy efficiency and low carbon heating sectors.