Households given the Warm Home Discount, Great Britain
Official statistics in development
Households in Great Britain given the £150 Warm Home Discount in each scheme year since 2022/23, by the Core Group they qualified in, with the rebates' value and the share of all households, from DESNZ.
All households
5,517,140
2025/26 · 18.6% of Great Britain's households, £827.6 million in rebates
Verified against source, 9 November 2026, 15:16 UTC- Core Group 1, England and Wales
- Core Group 2, England and Wales
- Core Group, Scotland
- All households
Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
4 periods, newest first
| Period | Core Group 1, England and Wales | Core Group 2, England and Wales | Core Group, Scotland | All households |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 889,368 | 4,534,239 | 93,533 | 5,517,140 |
| 2024/25 | 863,546 | 2,268,809 | 90,446 | 3,222,801 |
| 2023/24 | 865,895 | 2,186,041 | 90,559 | 3,142,495 |
| 2022/23 | 856,835 | 1,551,178 | 88,485 | 2,496,498 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/warm-home-discount-statistics
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 9 November 2026, 15:00 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/statistics/warm-home-discount-statistics-2025-to-2026SHA-256 d1668d43aeb97105693de5560423383026bcd2f81f35ed05711e2a46cab721a9 · 13,373 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a327450e590e5e061c9a11a/Warm_Home_Discount_data_tables_2025_26.odsSHA-256 d267c5fc8474f0b9525c339475958bdd04a3ab2d3b05a6560e1540e904f52cd5 · 2,137,440 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 9 November 2026, 15:16 UTC Run at 9 November 2026, 15:16 UTC; 16 of 16 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-09T15:00:46Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 16 of 16 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's rebates and base and share and standing match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 16 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 16 of 16 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's rebates and base and share and standing match |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2026-03-31 ended 223 days before retrieval (limit 500), from Warm Home Discount data tables (ODS) |
| Pass | Table 17c's DWP series agrees | 12 of 12 cases of Table 1's households equal Table 17c's DWP figures in thousands, within half the last place Table 17c states each to |
| Pass | The Core Groups add up to all households | 4 of 4 cases of the years' Core Groups add up to all households given the discount |
| Pass | Each group's rebates are £150 a household | 16 of 16 cases of the groups' and years' rebates are £150 for each household given the discount within 0.001 (13 exactly) |
| Pass | Each share is all households given the discount over all households | 4 of 4 cases of the years' shares are the households given the discount over all households within 1e-09 (4 exactly) |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/warm-home-discount-statistics – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Households given the £150 rebate off their electricity bill in each scheme year, April to March, from DWP's data: Core Group 1, pensioners getting Pension Credit's guarantee credit in England and Wales; Scotland's Core Group, the same pensioners in Scotland; and Core Group 2, households in England and Wales getting one of the qualifying means-tested benefits or tax credits, which does not apply in Scotland (DESNZ's note 1).
- In 2025/26 the scheme was expanded: the high-cost-to-heat threshold that applied within Core Group 2 was removed, so every billpayer getting a qualifying benefit became eligible, and DESNZ's figures reflect the revised scheme (its note 1). The years before are not on the same footing.
- The figures leave out the rebates given through Scotland's Broader Group, for which DESNZ has no household data, and suppliers' industry initiatives, so in Scotland they cover only part of the scheme (its note 4).
- The share is of all households: in England and Wales the Valuation Office's rateable dwellings and in Scotland National Records of Scotland's household estimates (its note 3). DESNZ gives no share for each Core Group, since the households in each group's population cannot be counted apart (its note 2).