Question follow-through · 43865
Heat Networks
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to encourage the connection of residential developments to district heating schemes.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 3 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to encourage the connection of residential developments to district heating schemes.
8 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Committee for Climate Change has recommended the government grows the heat network sector from providing 3% of national heat demand to 20% by 2050.To deliver this ambition we are transforming the heat network market through policies like heat network ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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