Department for Energy Security and Net Zero written question – answered at on 13 January 2026.
Catherine West
Labour, Hornsey and Friern Barnet
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to assist home-owners whose property is not suitable for the installation of heat pumps.
Martin McCluskey
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Evidence gathered from the Government funded Electrification of Heat Demonstration Project showed that heat pumps will work well in the vast Majority of homes. Moreover, modern heat pumps can increasingly be used in homes previously considered unsuitable for electrification.
The Heat Pump Ready Innovation Programme previously funded a variety of projects, including those seeking to improve the ease of heat pump deployment in homes that are ‘complex to decarbonise’.
The department has also commissioned research to collect data on the costs of different approaches to decarbonising the most complex housing archetypes, including the use of alternative low carbon heating solutions where they are required, and we expect to receive results from that research in early 2026.
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