Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of the UK’s carbon emissions that was generated from domestic heating for (a) 2023 and (b) each of the last five years.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero published an estimate of the proportion of UK net territorial greenhouse gas emissions from heat in residential buildings in the 2021 Heat and Buildings Strategy.

The figures include direct emissions from residential combustion as well as indirect emissions associated with the production of fuels and electricity consumed.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/heat-and-buildings-strategy (figure 2).

Updated statistics on UK territorial greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption by end user are now available up to 2021.

Estimated UK territorial greenhouse gas emissions from heat in residential buildings, million tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e)

Sources:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/final-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-national-statistics-1990-to-2021 (dataset of emissions by end user)

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/energy-consumption-in-the-uk-2022 (table U2)