Official Statistics

Summary of the Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery (LAD) and Home Upgrade Grant (HUG) statistics: June 2024

Published 20 June 2024

Applies to England

Introduction

The Home Upgrade Grant (HUG) and Local Authority Delivery scheme (LAD) are government schemes supporting energy efficiency upgrades of low-energy efficiency (EPC of D or lower) low-income (household income below £30k) households across England.

HUG Phase 2 (HUG 2) is actively reporting, and has allocated £630 million for delivery between September 2023 and March 2025. HUG 2 is exclusively for off-gas-grid properties.

LAD Phases 1 and 2 previously received £500 million between them, installing 50,900 measures across 39,200 households. These schemes ran between 2020-2022.

LAD Phase 3 made £287 million of funding available for Local Authorities. HUG 1 allocated £220 million, exclusively for homes that are off the gas grid. Both schemes ran from 2022-2023.

Delivery by Scheme

Scheme	Years Active	Homes Upgraded	Measures Installed	Scheme status
LAD Phase 1	2020 - 2022	18,600	23,800	Closed
LAD Phase 2	2021 - 2022	20,500	27,000	Closed
LAD Phase 3	2022 - 2023	19,500	27,000	Closed
HUG Phase 1	2022 - 2023	4,000	6,400	Closed
HUG Phase 2	2023 - 2025	1,500	2,600	Ongoing

What you need to know about these statistics

The data contained in the analysis is based on returns submitted by mid-May 2024, requesting data to the end of April 2024.

All figures in this publication are provisional and subject to revision. For more information, see the Department’s statistical revisions policy.

Key statistics

Total Homes Upgraded

• This publication is based on returns requesting data to the end of April 2024. HUG 2 has installed 2,570 measures across 1,480 households to date, including some initial data for May. There were 530 measures and 310 households reported to be upgraded in April.
• The LAD 3 scheme delivered 27,000 measures across 19,500 households, with 6,400 measures installed across 4,000 households through the HUG 1 scheme.
• A total of 25,000 households have been upgraded across LAD 3, HUG 1, and HUG 2 (Figure 1). Most upgrades (78%) were delivered by LAD 3, with 16% from HUG 1, and 6% from HUG 2. LAD 1 previously upgraded 18,600 households, and LAD 2 upgraded 20,500.
• Across all schemes (LAD 1, LAD 2, LAD 3, HUG 1, and HUG 2) there were 86,800 measures installed in 64,200 households, based on data reported to the end of April 2024.
• The average Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) improved by 1 band for LAD 3 and HUG 1, based on the 93% of households that reported pre and post installation EPC scores.
• There were 95% of households that reported post-installation EPC scores, of which 60% of LAD 3 and 40% of HUG 1 households were improved to an EPC of C or higher. HUG 1 homes tended to have a lower starting EPC, hence the lower fraction improved to EPC C or higher.
• LAD 1 and LAD 2 improved 55% and 60% of homes to EPC C or higher respectively.

Figure 1: Total number of homes upgraded by scheme

Measure delivery by month

• HUG 2 received notice of 310 homes upgraded in April compared to 380 homes in March and 270 homes in February. There was a similar pattern in measures installed, with 530 installations reported in April, compared to 740 installations in March and 460 in February. In total, HUG 2 has delivered 2,570 measures across 1,480 households, including some initial data for May.
• Figure 2 shows the monthly delivery rates across all LAD phases and HUG: all LAD phases show the same pattern of starting slowly (hundreds of measures a month), before ramping up to deliver several thousand measures per month. HUG 1 followed a similar pattern, but peaked at a thousand measures a month. LAD 1 and 2 had a small number of measures installed after the official scheme ended in September 2022, which are not shown in the figure. HUG 2 has lower initial delivery numbers, climbing to around 500 measures per month in the last three months.

Figure 2: Number of Measures Installed by Month

Delivery by measure type

• Across HUG 2, solar PV was the most common type of measure, accounting for 35% of HUG 2 installations. Insulation accounted for around 29% of HUG 2 measures followed by Low Carbon Heat accounted for around 24% of HUG 2 measures, as shown in Figure 3. Other heat includes all non Air Source Heat Pump (ASHP) forms of low carbon heating. Other includes all other measures not explicitly listed.
• Across LAD 3 and HUG 1, insulation measures were the most common type of measure, accounting for 49% of LAD 3, and 43% of HUG 1 installations. Solar PV was the most common single measure installed, accounting for 38% of LAD 3 and 27% of HUG 1 installations.

Figure 3: Type of Measures Installed by Scheme

Delivery by region

• Through HUG 2, the South East region had the most measures installed (29% of total HUG 2 measures), with the North West (28%) and the East (22%) also receiving a significant number of measures. No other region received more than 10% of HUG 2 measures. Please note the regions have significantly different populations and participating Local Authorities.

Annex: Further Information

Next publication date

The next publication will be at 09:30am on Thursday 25th July 2024.

Scheme Information

More information on the HUG and LAD schemes can be found on the Department’s website.

Accompanying tables

Tables showing number of measures installed and households upgraded under HUG and LAD are available online. The tables also contain information on methodology and data quality.

Revisions policy

The Department’s statistical revisions policy sets out the revisions policy for these statistics, which has been developed in accordance with the UK Statistics Authority Code of Practice for Statistics.

User engagement

Users are encouraged to provide comments and feedback on how these statistics are used and how well they meet user needs. Comments on any issues relating to this statistical release are welcomed and should be sent to: EnergyEfficiency.Stats@energysecurity.gov.uk. The Department’s statement on statistical public engagement and data standards sets out the department’s commitments on public engagement and data standards as outlined by the Code of Practice for Statistics.

Pre-release access to statistics

Some ministers and officials receive access to these Official Statistics up to 24 hours before release. Details of the arrangements for doing this and a list of the ministers and officials that receive pre-release access to these statistics can be found in the Department’s statement of compliance with the Pre-Release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008.

Contact

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