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1st Special Report – Retrofitting homes for net zero: Government Response

Published 18 August 2025

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At a glance

The government's response

This document responds to 1st Report - Retrofitting homes for net zero.

This is the government's response, published 18 August 2025.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government's response sets out much of its position through the forthcoming Warm Homes Plan, recognising several of the Committee's concerns while giving a longer timeline on gas network work and expressing scepticism on one funding proposal.

  • On long-term retrofit support, the government states that £13.2 billion "has been committed" to the Warm Homes Plan over 2025/26 to 2029/30, with allocations for individual programmes to be set out "by October this year".
  • On Energy Performance Certificates, the government is reforming them and "expects" changes to the metrics to be introduced in 2026; it will publish its consultation response "in due course".
  • On repurposing the gas network, the department "anticipates a longer timeline to be needed than the Committee's recommendation" and will publish a Call for Evidence in 2026.
  • On the Heat Training Grant, the government says it is "sceptical about plans to compensate installers for lost earnings", citing the complexity of avoiding "risks of fraud".

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