Housing: Insulation

(asked on 11th January 2021) - View Source

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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what financial levers or incentives they are considering, if any, to persuade people to insulate their homes to Energy Performance Certificate band C levels.


Answered by
Lord Callanan Portrait
Lord Callanan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 25th January 2021

Several government-funded schemes are in place to improve the energy efficiency of homes by installing insulation, most of which focus on homes with low-energy performance, and fuel poor homes.

The £1.5 billion Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme aims to deliver upgrades to 600,000 homes across England, with insulation forming one of the groups of primary measures available. Support is available for low-energy performing (rated EPC D or below) and fuel poor homes through the £500 million Local Authority Delivery (LAD) Green Homes Grant Scheme, and low-income and vulnerable households through the GB wide Energy Company Obligation (ECO) worth £640m per year until March 2022.

Lastly, the £50 million Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Demonstrator (SHDF(D)) aims to help Local Authorities retrofit social housing at scale and upgrade the energy performance of poorer-performing homes. We have committed a further £60 million for the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) to continue upgrading the least efficient social housing.

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