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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2022 to Question 106366 on Rented Housing: Energy, if his Department will make an estimate of number of social houses that will have energy efficiency measures installed in the first six months of the Social Housing Regulation Bill receiving Royal Assent.

The Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) will upgrade a significant amount of the social housing stock currently below EPC C. The Government launched Wave 1 of the SHDF in August 2021. It has awarded around £179m of grant funding for delivery from 2022 into 2023 and will see energy performance improvements to up to 20,000 social homes. The Wave 2.1 competition, which closed in November 2022, will look to allocate up to £800m of grant funding to 2024/25 to support the installation of energy performance measures in social homes in England. Successful projects are likely to be notified in March 2023.