Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what projections has the Department made for the number of households that will rely on gas for heating in a) five years and b) ten years.

Around 85% of GB homes currently rely on gas heating. This proportion will decline in future as increasing numbers of households adopt low-carbon heating such as heat pumps and heat networks.

In the Warm Homes Plan the Government outlined an aim to reach over 450,000 heat pump installations a year by 2030, with heat pumps increasingly replacing fossil fuel heating systems in existing homes. By 2035, low-carbon heating is expected to represent the vast majority of heating system replacements