To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he will take to help ensure a fair transition to net zero for able to pay homes off the gas grid who cannot afford both the retrofit costs and upfront cost of installing a heat pump to their property.
Answered on
18 May 2022
The Government has committed to spend £6.6billion in this Parliament to further improve the energy performance of our buildings through a range of schemes. The Boiler Upgrade Scheme will provide grants of £5,000 for air source heat pumps and biomass boilers, and £6,000 for ground source heat pumps to support homes off the gas grid transition away from fossil fuel heating. In the Heat and Buildings Strategy, the Government set out ambitions to work with industry to reduce the upfront costs of heat pumps by 25-50% by 2025 and to parity with gas boilers by 2030.