Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Social housing tenants helped to cut energy bills with £80 million for home upgrades, how many social homes will be insulated under that funding scheme.

The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) will upgrade a significant amount of the social housing stock currently below Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) band C in England up to that standard.

The SHDF Wave 2.2 ‘top up’ competition will allocate up to £80 million of grant funding from April 2024, building on the allocations made under the previous Wave 2.1.

SHDF Wave 2.1 awarded £778 million in March 2023 to deliver energy performance improvements to around 90,000 social homes, and the Wave 2.2 competition funding aims to upgrade around 9,500 additional homes.