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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to increase the number of heat pumps being installed in homes.

As my Rt hon Friend the Prime Minister outlined in the Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution, we are putting in place policies to scale up the deployment of heat pumps. Our ambition is to reach 600,000 heat pump installations per year by 2028, by creating a market-led incentive framework to drive growth, and we will bring forward regulations to support this. More details will be provided when our Heat and Buildings Strategy is published next year.

In addition, the Government is providing financial support to help install heat pumps. Through the Renewable Heat Incentive, we are spending an estimated £1bn in 2020/21 to encourage the deployment of low carbon technologies, including heat pumps, in homes and businesses across Great Britain. Furthermore, we have extended the domestic Renewable Heat Incentive until March 2022 and committed £100m to the Clean Heat Grant, which is expected to be introduced in April 2022. And heat pumps also qualify for the Green Homes Grant, the £2bn government-funded voucher scheme which is already helping people install energy efficiency and low carbon heating measures in their homes; reducing their energy bills and their carbon emissions.