Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the Answer of 3 February 2014, Official Report, columns 133-4W, on renewable energy: heating, when he expects to publish the data on the effect on electricity bills in households using heat pumps.

In January this year, we published a preliminary report on the Renewable Heat Premium Payment (RHPP) heat pump metering programme. This is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/276612/Preliminary_Report_on_the_RHPP_metering_programme_2014-01-31.pdf .

This report, presents data from more than 400 heat pumps installed in domestic properties on a trial basis.