The Warm Homes Plan aims to upgrade up to five million homes by 2030 through government-backed support around solar panels, batteries, heat pumps and insulation.

These measures, along with others, are being introduced by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero to lower energy bills and bring one million families out of fuel poverty. 

A new Warm Homes Agency will be created to oversee these plans.

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To help ensure success, the FMB is arguing there needs to be a focus on delivery to ensure enough skilled and competent workers are available to facilitate these upgrades.

“The new Warm Homes Agency must get up and running quickly to coordinate programmes and consumer protections, with procurement routes that give SMEs a fair chance to win work,” says Brian Berry, CEO at the FMB.

“The creation of a new Workforce Taskforce is also an important step — if the plan is to succeed, the government must give industry a genuinely stable pipeline: multi?year funding, a clear timetable, and certainty over future standards and regulations.

“Consistency will be essential if small builders are to invest in skills."