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.
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.