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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the inclusion of hybrid heat pumps coupled with renewable heating technologies, such as bioLPG, in the Boiler Upgrade Scheme.

Hybrid heating systems will not be supported through the Boiler Upgrade Scheme. The Government acknowledges that in off gas grid areas, a future transition from heating oil and LPG to biofuels may allow the boiler element of a hybrid system to decarbonise and the Government recognises the work taking place within the oil and LPG industries to that end. However, the Government does not yet have sufficient evidence to take decisions on the potential role of biofuels in this context.