Housing: Energy
(asked on 20th September 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many homes were upgraded to energy performance certificate band C in each year since 2010.
Estimates of the number of dwellings by EPC band are made for England in the English Housing Survey headline report annex table 2.8. The table below collates the time series requested:
Estimated Number of Dwellings in England by Energy Efficiency Rating (Thousands)
| A-C | D-G | Number of homes improved to Band A-C[1] |
2009 | 2,595 | 19,740 |
|
2010 | 2,971 | 19,573 | 167 |
2011 | 3,348 | 19,406 | 167 |
2012 | 4,141 | 18,577 | 829 |
2013 | 5,373 | 17,881 | 696 |
2014 | 6,125 | 17,246 | 635 |
2015 | 6,700 | 16,843 | 403 |
2016 | 7,049 | 16,684 | 159 |
2017 | 7,214 | 16,736 | -52 |
2018 | 8,290 | 15,883 | 853 |
2019 | 9,854 | 14,560 | 1,323 |
2020 | 10,856 | 12,678 | 1,881 |
Source: English Housing Survey
[1] The estimate of homes upgraded to band A-C from D-G has been derived by subtraction of the previous year’s estimate of D-G homes.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2020-to-2021-headline-report.
It should be noted that it is difficult to make accurate year on year comparisons and there have been slight changes in the methodology used to derive EPC ratings over time. Overall, the number of dwellings in England is increasing and so the total increase in band A-C dwellings is higher than the number of D-Gs improved to band A-C due to new dwellings.