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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he plans to take to encourage the installation of heat pumps by owners of off-gas grid homes.

The Government has been acting to support those wishing to install heat pumps, including in homes off the gas grid, through schemes such as the Renewable Heat Incentive and the forthcoming Boiler Upgrade Scheme.

The Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive is scheduled to close in 2022. It will then be replaced by the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, which will provide upfront capital grants for the installation of low carbon heating systems in homes and small non-domestic buildings. The Boiler Upgrade Scheme will provide grants of £5,000 towards the installation and capital costs of air source heat pumps and biomass boilers, and grants of £6,000 for ground source heat pumps in England.

In addition to this, the recent Heat and Buildings Strategy has outlined a comprehensive policy framework that will support heat pump deployment growth towards the Government’s ambition of 600,000 installations a year by 2028.