Mr. Graham Doyle:

There are about 140,000 local authority homes. About 5,000 are already at a building energy rating, BER, of B2 because they are new homes delivered in recent years. Some 75,000 had a shallow retrofit at the start and 36,000 social homes are to have a deep retrofit under the two programmes, the energy efficiency retrofit and the midlands retrofit programmes. That is being done at the moment at a rate of just over 2,000 a year. That shallow retrofit was extensive at an earlier stage for about half the stock. As I said, a good proportion of the stock of social houses is already at B2 because 35,000 of them are new and at that standard.