Thursday
13th November, 10am, Grimond Room, Portcullis
House
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will hold a scrutiny session
on faulty energy efficiency
installations at 10am on Thursday 13th
November.
The session will explore why there were such high levels of poor
quality and faulty installations of insulation under the
government's Energy Company Obligation (ECO) scheme, which was
meant to tackle fuel poverty and reduce emissions through home
retrofits.
Tens of thousands of these homes now need repairs to tackle
health and safety and damp and mould risks. Almost all (98%, up
to 23k) of homes with external insulation, and a little under a
third (29%, up to 13k) of homes with internal insulation
installed under the ECO are now estimated to need fixing. At
September 2025, less than 10% of the homes estimated to be
affected had been fully remediated.
Two panels will be held, first with the chief executives of
TrustMark and the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS),
two bodies with differing responsibilities for the quality of
retrofits, followed by senior officials from the Department for
Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) and energy regulator
Ofgem. Witnesses' views are likely to be sought on why so many
have proved faulty, why it took government so long to realise
poor quality was rife in the scheme, and government's plans to
fix the c.30k homes in need of attention and reform the system to
prevent similar future failures.
Panel One - witnesses from 10am:
- Simon Ayers MBE, Chief Executive
Officer at TrustMark
- Matt Gantley, Chief Executive at
UKAS
Panel Two – witnesses from approx. 10.30am
-
CB, Permanent
Secretary at DESNZ
- Clive Maxwell CB CBE, Second
Permanent Secretary at DESNZ
- Deborah Chittenden, Director – Net
Zero Buildings: Transformation at DESNZ
-
, Chief Executive
Officer at Ofgem
- Kiera Schoenemann, Director of
Audit and Compliance, Delivery and Schemes at Ofgem
