Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to Government grants statistics 2020 to 2021, published on 31 March 2022, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Main Fund.

Information on the Social Housing Decarbonisation Main Fund (SHDF) is published as statistics on GOV.UK, here. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has commissioned IFF Research, in partnership with Technopolis, Building Research Establishment and University College London, to conduct process, outcome and economic evaluations of Wave 1 and Wave 2.1 of the SHDF. The evaluations will complete in 2026; the first interim evaluation report will be published in 2024. Findings from evaluation research into the effectiveness of the management and delivery processes of the SHDF Demonstrator competition can be found here. The Government will publish a final outcome and economic evaluation of the SHDF Demonstrator in due course.