Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing access to a free energy efficiency assessment for all residential dwelling or small businesses.

The Simple Energy Advice platform provides users with energy advice tailored to their home and directs users to local tradespeople. The service is being transitioned to GOV.UK and enhanced allowing users to understand their home’s current energy performance and develop a personal retrofit plan as part of a wider government-led home energy advice project.

BEIS has also sponsored 100,000 free copies of the energy management ISO 50005 that provides SMEs with a means to develop a practical, low cost-approach to energy management to improve energy performance. Additionally, BEIS will establish a dedicated industrial energy advice offering for smaller businesses.