The Electrical Contractors' Association (ECA) joined 53 businesses and related trade bodies working on home upgrade installation, manufacturing and finance in signing a letter to Government asking it to honour its manifesto commitment to invest £13.2bn in the Warm Homes Plan, the association said in May 20251.
The letter was addressed to the Government and concerned the funding pledge attached to the Warm Homes Plan, a programme covering home energy upgrades1. The ECA describes the signatories as businesses and trade bodies that work on home upgrade installs, manufacturing and finance1. No further detail on the letter's contents, its recipients or any Government response has been reported1.
The ECA's wider position on home energy work is set out in its Safe Energy Transition Charter, which calls for faster clean electrification across heat, transport and power1. Among the changes it seeks are a review of fuel levies to bring parity between gas and electricity, a reduction in the price of electricity, and an expansion of the Boiler Upgrade Scheme to cover the installation of low carbon heating devices1. The association states that electricity is taxed four times more than gas1.
The ECA has also raised concerns about delivery of the Warm Homes Plan itself. In January 2026 it warned that missing electrotechnical expertise, weak apprenticeship support and no installer representation threaten the Plan's successful delivery1. In June 2025 it said clean heat installs must be carried out by a competent person1.
"ECA joins 53 businesses and related trade bodies who work on home upgrade installs, manufacturing and finance to sign a letter to Government to honour its manifesto commitment to invest £13.2bn in the Warm Homes Plan."
The ECA's published record also refers to a call by "ECA and eight trade associations representing 4,000 businesses" on the government to honour its "£13.2 million Warm Homes Plan pledge"1. The figure of £13.2 million conflicts with the £13.2bn given elsewhere on the same page and in the development summary; the association's own material does not reconcile the two1.
Why it matters for households
The Warm Homes Plan is the funding route behind much of the home upgrade work that households encounter, from insulation to heating replacement. Whether the £13.2bn commitment is held to affects the scale of grant-funded work available and the pipeline of installers able to carry it out. For a household weighing up measures such as a heat pump, the practical questions are which grants and schemes are open, whether a gas boiler affects eligibility, and how much the Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant is worth. The ECA's argument that electricity is taxed more heavily than gas bears directly on running costs once a home shifts more of its energy use to electricity, which is central to how far a home can reduce its exposure to fossil fuel prices.
What happens next
No Government response to the letter, and no timetable for a decision on the £13.2bn commitment, has been reported1.
Sources1 cited
- A Safe Transition to Net Zero, eca.co.uk