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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 4 June 2021 to Question 7077, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the Clean Heat Grant Scheme to incentivise the deployment of BioLPG in off grid homes where heat pumps are either unsuitable or cost prohibited.

BioLPG is not widely available to domestic consumers at present. The Clean Heat Grant aims to provide support that will maintain existing low-carbon heat supply chains from April 2022 and so the technologies it will support need to be readily deployable now. It will take time to gather the evidence needed to consider what future role biofuels could play in the decarbonisation of heat, and to develop the policy framework which would support such a role. This process is underway though the Biomass Strategy call for evidence. Biomass boilers are being supported as an alternative to heat pumps within the Clean Heat Grant, providing certain eligibility requirements are met.