Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the availability of labour in the insulation and retrofit sector.

For work carried out under Government schemes installers are required to be TrustMark registered, as well as PAS certified for energy efficiency measures and MCS certified for low carbon heating measures. In November 2022, there were 1782 TrustMark businesses across the UK which were certified to PAS or MCS standards.

The Mace market intelligence report commissioned by BEIS last year found that in 2021 there were 154,748 individuals installing energy efficiency measures in England. Research undertaken last year by Eunomia shows there are between 36,000 and 87,000 non-domestic retrofit businesses in the UK.

The Government is working with key industry bodies to consider what other actions are necessary both from industry and government to continue to grow this industry.