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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of incorporating Hydrogen Village trials into new housing developments.

The Government has committed to ensuring that all new buildings in England are ready for Net Zero from 2025 to future-proof new homes and avoid the need for later retrofitting. The Government expects heat pumps will become the primary heating technology for new homes under the Future Homes Standard and, for this reason, the number of new housing developments in the trial areas was not a criterion used during the village trial design and selection process.