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 is taking to increase the number of heat pump installers registered under the Microgeneration Certification Scheme.

The Government's £6 million Home Decarbonisation Skills Training competition in 2020 and 2021 supported almost 7,000 training opportunities, including training for over 2,000 heat pump installers. On 20 September the Government launched the next phase of the competition with a further £10 million to fund training for people working in the energy efficiency, retrofit and low carbon heating sectors in England. It is expected that many of these installers will seek to register with the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) or equivalent schemes.