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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what programmes are available to support homeowners to insulate their homes; and if he will make a statement.

The Government’s Heat and Buildings Strategy sets out the programmes available to support homeowners to insulate their homes, including £3.9 billion of new funding to reduce emissions from buildings in the near term. Part of this will fund the next 3 years of investment through the Home Upgrade Grant scheme, which helps to deliver energy efficiency improvement measures, such as insulation, to low-income households in energy inefficient homes off the gas grid.

Alongside this, the £500 million Local Authority Delivery Scheme focuses on low-income households that are most in need of energy efficiency upgrades. Energy efficiency measures under this scheme may include, but are not limited to, solid wall insulation, cavity wall insulation, loft insulation and underfloor insulation.

In the summer of 2021, the Government announced the launch of the Sustainable Warmth competition. This is worth over £400m and comprises both the Local Authority Delivery scheme phase 3 and the Home Upgrade Grant phase 1.

In addition, under the Energy Company Obligation scheme, larger energy suppliers can deliver energy efficiency and heating measures to low income and vulnerable households across Great Britain. We recently consulted on a 4-year, £4 billion successor scheme to 2026.