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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of redeploying existing social housing energy efficiency funding.

The 2019 Conservative Manifesto committed to a £3.8bn Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) over a 10-year period to improve the energy performance of social homes, reducing fuel bills and carbon emissions.

The total committed grant funding for the SHDF and associated Demonstrator to date is just over £1bn. Due to demand, the level of grant funding awarded for previous competitions exceeded the initial committed amounts of£50m for the SHDF Demonstrator and £160m for Wave 1, with around £62m and around £179m of grant funding awarded respectively. The recent Wave 2.1 competition will allocate up to £800m of grant funding.