Warm Homes Plan

That this House is deeply disappointed by the Government’s decision to delay the publication of the Warm Homes Plan; understands this means vulnerable households were been left without the anticipated support to upgrade homes and cut energy bills in winter 2024-25 and now again, for winter 2025-26; notes that the publication of this plan is needed urgently given UK housing stock is the oldest in Europe and among the least energy efficient, homelessness in the UK is at a record high and an estimated six million households are in fuel poverty; further notes that new decent homes standards have been further delayed; and calls on the Government to urgently implement a 10-year emergency home upgrade programme, provide incentives for installing heat pumps that cover the real costs, and bring forward a social energy tariff to reduce energy bills to protect vulnerable households this winter.