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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to improve the carbon efficiency of homes.

The Energy Company Obligation, worth £640m per year to 2022, has helped improve the energy efficiency of over 1.6 million homes since 2013. We are also introducing new regulations that will require that all new private rental tenancies from April 2018 must meet a minimum energy efficiency of EPC Band E.

Furthermore, the domestic RHI offers support for a range of technologies and fuel uses such as solid biomass, heat pumps, and solar thermal and, at the end of July 2017, 57,203 installations had been accredited.

Our Clean Growth Strategy will set out further proposals for reducing carbon emissions.