The Government’s Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS) provides £7,500 grants to help households replace a fossil fuel boiler with a heat pump. The BUS has helped drive record heat pump installations.  

The success of the BUS so far has already led to it being extended. Launched in 2022, the BUS was originally due to run until 2025, but following campaigning by The MCS Foundation and partners, it will now run until 2028. We also successfully campaigned to get an additional £1.5 billion committed to the BUS. 

We must now ensure that the BUS runs until at least 2030. This is vital to ensure that households continue to install heat pumps at record levels and to provide certainty for the clean heating sector.