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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he has taken to (a) ensure and (b) monitor implementation of Article 10 Financial incentives and market barriers of Evaluation of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2010/31/EU; and if he will make a statement.

Implementation of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2010/31/EU is led by my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, though of course BEIS has a key role in supporting this.

Article 10 of the EPBD requires Member States to consider the most relevant finance and other instruments to catalyse the energy performance of buildings in the light of national circumstances, and to inform the Commission of these measures. As allowed for by the Directive, the UK has set out its list of measures in the Energy Efficiency Action Plans submitted to the Commission, most recently in 2017. The 2017 report can be found here:

https://ec.europa.eu/energy/sites/ener/files/documents/uk_neeap_2017.pdf