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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2022 to Question 71041 on heat pumps, what his Department’s plans are to increase the installation rate of heat pumps in homes.

Heat pumps have a critical role to play in decarbonising how we heat our homes and businesses. Therefore the Government has set an ambition to grow the market to 600,000 heat pump installations per year by 2028, as set out in the Ten Point Plan. To support this ambition, the Government is undertaking a comprehensive package of policy measures, including targeted regulation, a new market-based mechanism and public investment, through programmes such as the £450 million Boiler Upgrade Scheme.