Housing: Energy

(asked on 7th December 2021) - View Source

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 (a) increase investment in the retrofit market and (b) create a sustainable supply chain, jobs, and skills in that sector.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 15th December 2021

In the Heat and Buildings Strategy, the Government set out a clear long-term framework to enable industry to invest. The Government set out the actions it will take to reduce emissions from buildings in the near term and deliver the transition to low-carbon heating. The Government has also put in place minimum energy performance standards in the private rented sector. In the Energy White Paper, the Government committed to seek primary powers to enable regulatory measures to improve the energy performance of owner-occupied homes. The Government wants landlords and homeowners to invest in retrofitting.

The Government recognises the need for a skilled, competent and robust supply chain to deliver the necessary improvements to buildings to meet our net zero targets. In September 2020 the Government launched a £6.9million Skills Training Competition to provide up to 8,000 training opportunities for the energy efficiency and low carbon heating supply chains. Government is exploring further options to work with the industry to encourage training in key skills shortage areas and new routes of entry to increase capacity.

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