We acknowledge that the Government wants to give industry the time to develop its supply chains; however, this appears to be to the detriment of new build homeowners, who will have to pay to retrofit their homes. It is unnecessary to wait until 2025 to implement the Future Homes Standard. To minimise expensive retrofit costs, the Government should bring forward the implementation of the Future Homes Standard to 2023 instead of 2025.

We acknowledge that the Government wants to give industry the time to develop its supply chains; however, this appears to be to the detriment of new build homeowners, who will have to pay to retrofit their homes. It is unnecessary to wait until 2025 to implement the Future Homes Standard. To minimise expensive retrofit costs, the Government should bring forward the implementation of the Future Homes Standard to 2023 instead of 2025. Type: recommendation | Number: 10 | Paragraph: 54 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: The Heat and Buildings strategy (HBS) summarises the range of measures we are taking to ensure the market is in place to deliver on our ambition of 600000 annual heat pump installations by 2028. These include a mixture of financial support, market intervention and regulations, which have been design