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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to outline his Department's strategy for promoting the use of sustainable and efficient energy measures in residential homes.

The Government has taken a number of measures to promote the use of sustainable and efficient energy measures in residential buildings.

On 8 December we published a consultation on the Future of Heat in domestic buildings. This consultation seeks views on a range of options that can keep heating bills as low as possible, ensure the UK has a secure and resilient energy system and reduce carbon emissions cost-effectively at home. On 14^th December, we also published the response to our consultation on reforms to the Renewable Heat Incentive. The reforms will focus on long-term decarbonisation, promote technologies with a credible role to play in that transition and offer better value for money for taxpayers.

The Government has already introduced a number of provisions to drive energy efficiency improvements in both domestic and non-domestic privately rented property through the Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) Regulations 2015. Landlords will be required by law to have improved the energy efficiency rating of the properties they let to an Energy Performance Certificate rating of at least an E from April 2018.

The Energy Company Obligation (ECO), and its successor, will continue to deliver energy efficiency improvements out to 2022.

We also commissioned an independent review into consumer advice, protection, standards and enforcement for home energy efficiency and renewable energy measures which will be published imminently.