This week (18 December 2025), Luke Myer MP raised serious concerns in the House of Commons about the quality and oversight of work carried out under the ECO4 energy efficiency scheme, following distressing cases brought to him by constituents in East Cleveland.

Speaking on behalf of constituents including Rob from Loftus and Hilda from Skinningrove, Luke highlighted poor experiences with contractors operating under ECO4, where installations instead caused disruption and anxiety. While welcoming the Government’s decision to scrap ECO4, Luke pressed ministers on the need to properly examine what went wrong and ensure future schemes work in the interests of both taxpayers and households.

Responding, the Leader of the House, Sir Alan Campbell MP, apologised for the experiences described and acknowledged the seriousness of the issue. He confirmed that the Government expects all ECO4 installations to meet strict quality and safety standards, and is applying pressure on installers to take responsibility for fixing faults. The intervention follows earlier admissions from Government that TrustMark audits uncovered widespread poor-quality insulation under ECO4 affecting thousands of homes. Those findings helped prompt the Chancellor’s announcement in November that ECO would be scrapped from March 2026 and replaced with Labour’s Warm Homes Plan, a reformed approach to housing retrofit aimed at cutting bills, improving standards and delivering warmer homes with clearer accountability.

Luke has long supported properly designed retrofit programmes, arguing that energy efficiency can lower bills, create skilled local jobs and improve health – provided schemes are well funded, well communicated and coordinated with local government. His focus now is ensuring that lessons from ECO4 are learned so that the Warm Homes Plan delivers for communities like those in Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland.

Luke Myer MP said:

“Retrofitting homes is absolutely the right thing to do, but it has to be done properly. My constituents were let down by poor workmanship and a system that did not step in quickly enough when things went wrong. We must learn from these failures to make sure the new Warm Homes Plan has strong oversight, clear accountability and high standards, so taxpayers’ money is well spent and families get the warm, safe homes they are promised.”