Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking in relation to (1) training additional heat pump engineers, (2) supporting heat pump manufacturers, and (3) making heat pumps more affordable for consumers, in order to ensure that they meet their target of installing 600,000 heat pumps per year by 2028.

The Government has set out a package of policies to help install 600,000 heat pumps per year by 2028:

On training, the £5 million Heat Training Grant is expected to support 6,000 trainees in England to become heat pump installers.

On manufacturing, the £30 million Heat Pump Investment Accelerator Competition aims to increase our manufacturing capacity.

On affordability, the Boiler Upgrade Scheme offers grants of £7,500 for heat pump installations, VAT has been eliminated on heat pump installations until 2027, and the Heat Pump Ready innovation programme supports projects to reduce whole life costs of heat pumps.