Department for Energy Security and Net Zero written question – answered at on 9 June 2025.
Andrew George
Liberal Democrat, St Ives
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what funding his Department (a) has provided and (b) intends to provide, including through energy company obligations, to help reduce domestic energy Bills between the 2020-21 and 2030-31 financial years, broken down by (i) cash handouts, (ii) installation of (A) new gas boilers, (B) heat pumps, (C) other heating systems, (D) solar panels, (E) domestic and heat batteries (including heat batteries), (iii) replacement (1) windows, (2) doors and (3) insulation and (iv) other support.
Miatta Fahnbulleh
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
As the first step towards the Warm Homes Plan, the Government has committed an initial £3.4 billion over the next 3 years towards heat decarbonisation and household energy efficiency, with £1 billion of this allocated to 2025/2026. The current iteration of the scheme, ECO4, runs from 2022 - 2026 with an increased value of £4 billion to accelerate our efforts to improve homes to meet Fuel Poverty targets.
Government does not specify which types of measures should be installed in any particular property, only that the installations should be carried out by TrustMark registered installers in accordance with the relevant standards and consumer protection requirements.
Deployment of measures under Government schemes are published monthly on Gov.uk: www.gov.uk/government/collections/green-home-grant-statistics, www.gov.uk/government/collections/household-energy-efficiency-national-statistics.
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A household is said to be in fuel poverty when its members cannot afford to keep adequately warm at reasonable cost, given their income.