Official Statistics

Summary of the Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery (LAD) and Home Upgrade Grant (HUG) statistics: May 2025

Published 29 May 2025

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. 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.

1.1 Delivery by Scheme as of May 2025 Statistics Release

Scheme	Years Active	Homes Upgraded	Measures Installed	Scheme status
LAD Phase 1	2020 - 2022	18,500	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	9,400	17,000	Ongoing

What you need to know about these statistics

The data contained in these statistics is based on returns submitted by Grant Recipients by mid-May 2025, covering measures delivered to the end of March 2025. Whilst the HUG 2 scheme officially closed in March 2025, some grant recipients were granted delivery extensions.

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 submitted in mid-May 2025 covering measures installed to the end of March 2025, with preliminary April data included for completeness. HUG 2 has installed around 17,000 measures across 9,400 households to date, including some initial data for April. There were an additional 990 households (1,950 measures) reported compared to the previous release. There were 1,720 measures installed and 980 upgraded households reported in March.
• Across all schemes (LAD 1, LAD 2, LAD 3, HUG 1, and HUG 2) there were a reported total of 101,100 measures installed in 71,900 households.
• The average Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) improved by 1 band for HUG 2, with 61% of homes upgraded to EPC C or higher. These figures are based on the 98% of households that reported post installation EPC scores.

Figure 1: Monthly homes upgraded by HUG 2

The data used in this chart can be found in Table 3 of the accompanying tables.

Homes upgraded by month

• HUG 2 has delivered around 17,000 measures across 9,400 households, including preliminary data for April 2025. HUG 2 received notice of 980 homes upgraded in March compared to 1,090 homes in February and 600 homes in January. There was a similar pattern in measures installed, with 1,720 installations reported in March, compared to 2,000 installations in February and 1,130 in January.

• Figure 2 shows the monthly number of homes upgraded across all phases of LAD and HUG: all LAD phases show the same pattern of starting slowly (hundreds of homes a month), before ramping up to upgrade several thousand homes per month. HUG 1 followed a similar pattern, but peaked at around 670 homes upgraded per month. HUG 2 has reported higher installation volumes in the past few months, with a peak of around 1,000 homes reported as upgraded with 1,090 homes upgraded in February and 980 homes in March 2025. LAD 1 and 2 had a small number of homes upgraded after the official scheme ended in September 2022, which are not shown in the figure.

Figure 2: Number of Homes Upgraded by Month

The data used in this chart can be found in Table 3 of the accompanying tables.

Delivery by measure type

• Across HUG 2, Solar PV was the most common type of measure, accounting for 35% of installations. Low Carbon Heat measures accounted for around 30% of HUG 2 measures followed by Insulation (26%) measures as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3: Type of measures installed in HUG 2

The data used in this chart can be found in Table 1.5 of the accompanying tables. Other LCH includes all other forms of low carbon heating not listed. Other Insulation includes all other insulation measures not listed.

Delivery by region

The South East region has the most homes upgraded through HUG 2 (22% of total HUG 2 homes), with the North West (18%), East of England (17%), and South West (15%), also containing a higher proportion of homes upgraded. Yorkshire and Humber (8%), West Midlands (8%), East Midlands (8%), North East (2%) and London (1%) had a smaller numbers of homes upgraded. Please note the regions have significantly different populations and participating grant recipients.

Annex: Further information

Next publication date

The next publication will be at 09:30am on Thursday 26 June 2025.

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

Responsible statisticians: Nick Dann and Zheni Goranova

Email: EnergyEfficiency.Stats@energysecurity.gov.uk

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