The government announced today that a further £1.25bn will be allocated to the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF), which will be used to insulate or retrofit 140,000 homes between 2025 and 2028.

In the autumn statement 2022, chancellor Jeremy Hunt said that a further £6bn would be allocated to driving energy efficiency measures in buildings and industry.

Today, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has outlined how the £6bn in funding for 2025-2028 will be allocated.

The announcement states that a further £1.5bn will be allocated to the boiler upgrade scheme, to help households in England and Wales replace gas boilers with heat pumps.