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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing conditions so that retrofitting the existing building stock contributes to the Department’s levelling up agenda.

The Government is committing a further £3.9 billion for retrofitting buildings with energy-efficiency measures over the next three years. This takes total commitment to decarbonising buildings to £6.6 billion in this Parliament. In the Heat and Buildings Strategy, the Government sets out how decarbonising buildings can support growth and levelling up. This work is predicted to support 175,000 green skilled jobs by 2030 and 240,000 by 2035. This will result in £6 billion additional gross value added by 2030, with a focus on the areas that most need investment.