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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has a target for improving energy efficiency in buildings beyond 2022; and if he will make a statement.

The Government has a number of targets and ambitions for improving energy efficiency in buildings as set out in the Clean Growth Strategy, published in October 2017. For example, these include:

• A statutory target to raise as many English fuel poor homes as is reasonably practicable to energy efficiency Band C by 2030, with milestones of Band E by 2020 and Band D by 2025. The Devolved Administrations in Scotland and Wales have separate legal fuel poverty targets.
• An aspiration that as many homes as possible, across the whole housing stock are improved to Energy Performance Certificate Band C by 2035, where practical, cost-effective and affordable.
• An ambition to enable business and industry to improve energy efficiency by at least 20 per cent by 2030. This will require improvements to energy efficiency in buildings as well as industrial processes.