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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many off gas grid homes that applied to join the electrification of heat demonstration project heat pump trial were declined on the grounds of technical reasoning, cost or disruption caused.

Due to high levels of interest in the Electrification of Heat Demonstration Project, the majority of applicants did not progress through to installation, because they either did not meet the project requirements - including a target of 85% of homes to be on the gas grid - or withdrew from the project. Further findings and data from the project will be published in due course.