UK households to get 'warm home' grants and reduced energy bills

Labour has promised new ‘warm home’ grants and energy bill changes to cut costs for millions of households. Sir Kier Starmer has also committed to introducing a new "warm home" grant, which will help households improve their home's energy efficiency.

The manifesto states: "The Warm Homes Plan will offer grants and low-interest loans to support investment in insulation and other improvements such as solar panels, batteries and low-carbon heating to cut bills. We will partner with combined authorities, local and devolved governments, to roll out this plan.

"Labour will also work with the private sector, including banks and building societies, to provide further private finance to accelerate home upgrades and low carbon heating." The Labour manifesto states: "Labour will ensure a much tougher system of regulation that puts consumers first and attracts the investment needed to cut bills.

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"Too much of the burden of the bill is on standing charges, and we will work with the regulator to reduce them." He said: “The way we create wealth is broken. It leaves far too many people feeling insecure. Wealth creation is our number one priority. If you take nothing else away from this today, let it be this. We are pro-business and pro-worker. A plan for wealth creation.”

Starmer said he saw “potential held back” everywhere he went by lack of housing, the cost of living crisis, low wages and children with rotting teeth. “Britain has lost its balance. It is too hard for people to get on. Opportunity is not spread evenly,” he said at his manifesto launch in Manchester. “The toxic idea that economic growth is something handed out by the few to the many.

"Today we turn the page on that for ever." And he added: “Redistribution can’t be a one-word plan for our poorest towns and regions.”