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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to reduce the average cost of retro-fitting a household.

The Government is providing support to those on low incomes through our ‘Help to Heat’ schemes.

The Government is working to reduce the cost of low carbon heating technologies like heat pumps, including through the £60 million Heat Pump Innovation Fund and the £450 million Boiler Upgrade Scheme.

Launched in 2019, the Whole House Retrofit Cost Reduction Trajectory Competition is a key step in exploring the potential for reductions in domestic retrofit costs. Through the competition, £7.7 million has been awarded to three organisations. The results of the competition are due in the summer of 2023.