To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to reintroduce the Zero Carbon Homes policy to help reduce household energy bills.
Answered on
9 March 2022
The Government has no plans to reintroduce the Zero Carbon Homes policy. Instead, when it is implemented in 2025, the Future Homes Standard (FHS) will ensure new homes are zero carbon ready, with high energy efficiency and low carbon heat. Under the FHS, New homes will producing at least 75% lower CO2 emissions compared to current standards and will require no further retrofit to become fully zero carbon as the electricity grid continues to decarbonise.
We have also recently implemented an uplift to the Building Regulations as an important stepping-stone to the FHS. When the uplift comes into force in June 2022, new homes will produce 30% less CO2 compared to the current standard.