Buildings: Insulation

(asked on 9th 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 assessment his Department has made of the number of properties in (a) Wales (b) England (c) Scotland (d) Northern Ireland which are eligible for cavity wall insulation.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 14th December 2021

The table below sets out the number of properties which had cavity walls and the proportion of those properties which had cavity wall insulation as at December 2020.

Nation

Approximate Properties with Cavity Walls

Estimate of Percentage of those Properties with Cavity Wall Insulation

Great Britain

20.4 million

70%

England

17.5 million

69%

Wales

0.9 million

75%

Scotland

2.0 million

80%

This data can be found at Tables 8.7a-d in the following: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/household-energy-efficiency-statistics-detailed-report-2020.

We do not hold data for Northern Ireland.

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