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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential (a) merits and (b) costs of introducing a cap of £5,000 rather than £2,500 on landlord contributions to domestic private rented sector energy efficiency schemes.

The Department is currently consulting on proposals to introduce a landlord funding contribution element to the domestic Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property)(England and Wales) Regulations 2015. A consultation stage impact assessment of the policy options under consideration was published alongside the consultation paper. The impact assessment sets out the benefits and costs of landlord contributions capped at £1,000, £2,500, £3,500 and £5,000. This includes an assessment of the number of homes meeting the minimum standard under the various cap options, the number of homes receiving measures up to the value of each cap but not reaching the minimum standard, the average cost of the measures per property, the savings on bills achieved by tenants, number of fuel poor households receiving measures, benefits to tenant health and other key factors.

Full details of the policy options under considerations and the complete consultation stage impact assessment are available via the gov.uk consultation hub.