The government is committed to delivering the Warm Homes Plan at pace. We will carefully consider responses to consultations relevant to the Plan and will implement policy changes in line with legislative and delivery timetables.

Tackling fuel poverty is a priority for this Government. Through the 2026 Fuel Poverty Strategy for England and the Warm Homes Plan, we are taking action to accelerate progress, with an ambition to lift up to 1 million households out of fuel poverty by 2030. This will be achieved through new regulations in the rental sector as well as £5 billion of support from the Warm Homes Plan for low-income households and the expanded Warm Home Discount.

The Fuel Poverty Strategy acknowledged that sustained action beyond 2030 will be required to tackle fuel poverty and committed to consulting on a new fuel poverty target to succeed the 2030 target.

The Government is committed to delivering the Warm Homes Plan at pace while providing clarity and a stable pipeline for industry. We are working across energy efficiency and retrofit policy to support timely decisions on scheme design, mobilisation, and implementation. This includes considering workforce capacity, skills, and supply chain impacts as part of scheme development. We are also working with the TUC through the Warm Homes Plan Workforce Taskforce to support jobs and skills across the sector. We will continue to engage with delivery partners and industry to support investment and minimise disruption between programmes.

The Warm Homes: Local Grant scheme provides grant funding to local authorities to deliver energy performance upgrades and low carbon heating to low-income privately owned homes in England below EPC Band C. This includes homes both on and off the gas grid.

The scheme is locally administered and delivered by local authorities. They provide oversight of upgrades in their area, ensuring high quality and monitoring compliance with the required rules and standards of the scheme.

There are no current plans to allow a direct to installer route.

The Warm Homes Loan Scheme has been allocated up to £300m CDEL and under the Warm Homes Fund up to £1.7bn. The Government is undertaking detailed modelling, in line with departmental appraisal and analytical standards, to inform estimates of the number of retrofit installations that may be supported.

The number and type of measures financed will depend on several factors, including consumer uptake and the technologies installed; and loan sizes and repayment terms. These elements remain under development and analysis and, therefore, the Government has not yet finalised estimates of the total number of measures to be financed, nor any breakdown by technology type or tenure.

Further information will be published in due course.

The Warm Homes Loan Scheme has been allocated up to £300m CDEL and under the Warm Homes Fund up to £1.7bn. The Government is undertaking detailed modelling, in line with departmental appraisal and analytical standards, to inform estimates of the number of retrofit installations that may be supported.

The number and type of measures financed will depend on several factors, including consumer uptake and the technologies installed; and loan sizes and repayment terms. These elements remain under development and analysis and, therefore, the Government has not yet finalised estimates of the total number of measures to be financed, nor any breakdown by technology type or tenure.

Further information will be published in due course.

The Warm Homes Loan Scheme has been allocated up to £300m CDEL and under the Warm Homes Fund up to £1.7bn. The Government is undertaking detailed modelling, in line with departmental appraisal and analytical standards, to inform estimates of the number of retrofit installations that may be supported.

The number and type of measures financed will depend on several factors, including consumer uptake and the technologies installed; and loan sizes and repayment terms. These elements remain under development and analysis and, therefore, the Government has not yet finalised estimates of the total number of measures to be financed, nor any breakdown by technology type or tenure.

Further information will be published in due course.

Park homes are eligible for support under the Warm Homes: Local Grant - provided they are:

• The permanent residence of the household;
• Assessed as equivalent to an EPC band D–G home; and
• Are expected to remain in place for the duration of the relevant measure guarantee period.

As park homes do not have Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), eligibility is determined through an assessment of their Energy Performance Rating (EPR), which can evidence equivalence to the required EPC bands.

The Government has therefore ensured that park home residents can access support where they meet the scheme's eligibility criteria.

Funding for the Warm Homes Plan has not been suspended. The Energy Company Obligation (ECO4) has been extended to 31 December 2026 to allow energy suppliers additional time to complete remediation and their existing obligations.

Support for eligible households will continue through the Warm Homes Plan, including £1.5 billion additional grant funding for energy efficiency upgrades and low carbon heating, delivered through the Warm Homes: Local Grant and Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund schemes. The government has no plans to reinstate ECO4 and is instead delivering a long-term successor offer through the Warm Homes Plan.

The Warm Homes: Local Grant supports low-income households in England by funding energy efficiency improvements - including insulation, heat pumps, and solar PV.

Eligible households in privately owned EPC band D–G homes, both on and off the gas grid, can benefit where they meet the scheme criteria.

Delivery is managed locally, with local authorities responsible for procuring the supply chain capacity and capability needed to deliver upgrades in their areas.

All installations must comply with PAS 2030/2035, which requires retrofit professionals to consider traditionally constructed buildings and any potential unintended consequences, helping to support rural and non-standard properties.

The £15 billion warm homes plan is brilliant, because it will lift 1 million people out of fuel poverty and, as we are seeing in this heatwave, keep households cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. While that is being set up, what are the Government doing in the short term to bring down energy bills?

I commend my hon. Friend and his constituents for their enthusiasm for the warm homes plan. They can already access grants through the warm homes plan, and they will soon be able to receive loans.

The Department is committed to working collaboratively with the Northern Ireland Executive on the delivery of the Warm Homes Plan (WHP), recognising the distinct housing stock and energy needs across the UK. The WHP supports a range of low‑carbon heating solutions beyond hydronic heat pumps including heat networks, biomass boilers, air-to-air heat pumps, and heat batteries to ensure the upgrades are right for the context of the household. We will continue to keep under review the range of technologies that are supported by the WHP schemes.

We are committed to reforming the consumer protection system to support the delivery of the Warm Homes Plan.

We are currently consulting on proposals to strengthen consumer protections for home upgrades delivered through government schemes through Government oversight of the market. The consultation is open until 10 September 2026.

We will set out the direction of travel for these proposals in the Government Response by the end of year.

The Warm Homes Loan Scheme is designed to support households who are able to borrow but face upfront cost barriers. It recognises that consumer loans may not be suitable for all households, particularly those on low incomes or unable to take on debt.

The Department’s Warm Homes Fund Call for Evidence asked specific questions about suitable delivery mechanisms for low-income households. We are considering the responses and will set out further details of the design of the Fund later in 2026.

In addition, low-income consumers will benefit from over £5 billion of investment in home upgrades over this Parliament out to 2030, and we will shortly be announcing our plans for the future of low-income capital grant scheme delivery.

Through the Warm Homes Plan and the new Fuel Poverty Strategy, Government is taking decisive action to lift up to one million households out of fuel poverty by 2030. The Plan includes around £5 billion of support for low-income and fuel poor households, made up of £4.4 billion in direct capital grants and an initial £600 million from the Warm Homes Fund.

The Warm Homes Fund will support new low and zero‑interest finance to help households overcome upfront costs and enable greater participation in home upgrade schemes, complementing grant funding delivered through the Warm Homes: Local Grant and Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund.

The Government recognises that living in cold and poor-quality homes can have significant impacts on health and place additional pressure on health services. Evidence highlights that fuel poverty and poorly heated homes can increase ill health and associated National Health Service costs

Through the Warm Homes Plan, including the Warm Homes Fund, we are investing £15 billion to upgrade homes, improve energy efficiency and tackle fuel poverty, helping households to live in warmer, healthier homes.

Improving the quality and energy performance of homes is expected to support better health outcomes and reduce wider pressures on public services over time. Through supporting low and zero-interest finance to help households with the upfront costs of home upgrades, the Warm Homes Fund will enable wider participation in home upgrades.

The Warm Homes Plan will support up to 180,000 additional jobs in energy efficiency and clean heating by 2030. It includes our £8 million Warm Homes Skills Programme and a £7 million Heat Training Grant already helping people gain requisite skills and qualifications.

The Plan also highlights DESNZ’s wider work to support growth, including co-chairing the Warm Homes Plan Workforce Taskforce to facilitate the transition, creation and growth of a diverse, skilled and resilient workforce for existing workers and new entrants, and working with other government departments and the industry-led Construction Skills Mission Board to accelerate workforce growth in construction.

The number of loans, and therefore the number of retrofit measures supported, will depend on factors such as average loan size and repayment terms.

We will set out more detail on loan sizes and terms in due course.