Energy: Conservation

(asked on 2nd December 2020) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Business Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee Twenty-First Report of Session 2017-19, Energy efficiency: building towards net zero (HC 1730), whether he has had discussions with stakeholders on classifying energy efficiency programmes as part of a National Infrastructure Priority.


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Kwasi Kwarteng Portrait
Kwasi Kwarteng
This question was answered on 11th December 2020

The National Infrastructure Strategy set out the Government’s energy efficiency infrastructure ambitions. The Government is committed to delivering our net zero target and will take further steps to decarbonise the UK economy. The Government is planning to publish a Heat and Buildings Strategy in the coming months, which will set out the immediate actions we will take for reducing emissions from all homes and buildings and set buildings on track for net zero


Over £3 billion has already been announced as part of the Summer Economic Update to make homes and buildings greener and more energy efficient through the Green Homes Grant, Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme, and Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund demonstrator. My Rt hon Friend the Prime Minister recently set out his ten-point plan for a green industrial revolution. This includes investing an additional £1 billion to make our homes, schools and hospitals greener, warmer and more energy efficient, whilst creating 50,000 jobs by 2030, and setting out an ambition to install 600,000 heat pumps by 2028.

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