Mr. Paul Benson:

I will address that. Between 2013 and 2021, local authorities were engaged in shallow retrofit, which is effectively attic and wall insulation. In 2021, there was a commitment to upgrade to a higher standard of energy retrofit to try to get properties to a B2 rating to tie in with a Government commitment to have 500,000 houses reach that B2 rating by 2030. Of that figure, local authorities were to do 36,500. It required significant upskilling of local authority staff to get involved in that programme, to understand what needed to be done and to survey properties. The programme was a little slower to take off than we would have liked but to do more than 2,000 properties in 2021 from a standing start was still significant. Local authorities are now at a stage where they can do 2,500 comfortably. They may be able to do 3,000 this year depending on how things go and what kind of funding is available. It is just a question of building that skill set and that capacity within the local authorities to spend the money that is available. They are now in that process and we are in a good place.