Energy: Housing

(asked on 24th January 2018) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Clean Growth Strategy, published in October 2017, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of investment required each year to meet the target for as many homes as possible to be brought up to EPC Band C by 2035.


Answered by
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Claire Perry
This question was answered on 1st February 2018

The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has not made an official estimate of the amount of investment required each year to meet the target for as many homes as possible to be brought up to EPC Band C by 2035. The amount of investment will depend on the measures installed to achieve this energy efficiency level, which will also depend on the policies to encourage their uptake, and the impact of innovation investment on driving down cost and bringing forward new technologies.

The Department is currently undertaking this analysis and will publish these estimates in due course. The forthcoming call for evidence on EPCs will be a valuable addition to the evidence of how we can reach this target.

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