Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the application process for net-zero grants are accessible to local authorities with limited (a) resources and (b) capacity.

The net zero funding available to local authorities does not only come from net zero grants, but depends on the decisions local authorities make themselves about how they use the funding available to them, which includes their core settlement, grant funding schemes, UK growth funding, and loans at preferential rates from the UK Infrastructure Bank.

Through the Local Net Zero Hubs, the Government is supporting local authorities to attract commercial investment.