
Part 1
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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Warm Home Discount (Amendment) Regulations 2025.
(2) These Regulations come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.
(3) This Part extends to England and Wales and Scotland.
(4) Part 2 extends to England and Wales only.
(5) Part 3 extends to Scotland only.
Part 2
2 
The Warm Home Discount (England and Wales) Regulations 2022 are amended in accordance with regulations 3 and 4.
3 
In regulation 4(3)—
(a) in sub-paragraph (a), for “12(7) and” substitute “10, 12(5) to”; and
(b) after sub-paragraph (b), insert—“
(ba) the powers of the Secretary of State under regulation 11,”.
4 
In regulation 8(3)(b), for “1st March 2026”, substitute “31st March 2026”.
Part 3
5 
The Warm Home Discount (Scotland) Regulations 2022 are amended in accordance with regulations 6 and 7.
6 
After regulation 18, insert—“
18A 

(1) The aggregate non-core spending obligation for scheme year 15 is to be increased by £39 million (“the uplift”).
(2) The Authority must—
(a) recalculate each compulsory scheme electricity supplier’s non-core spending obligation for scheme year 15, to take account of the uplift, in accordance with paragraph (3); and
(b) notify each compulsory scheme electricity supplier of its recalculated non-core spending obligation on or before the 25th working day after this regulation comes into force.
(3) The non-core spending obligation must be recalculated by adding to the supplier’s non-core spending obligation (as adjusted in accordance with regulation 18) the amount of the uplift that is proportionate to that supplier’s scheme year 15 obligation percentage.”.
7 
In regulation 19, after paragraph (1), insert—“
(1A) In scheme year 15, the amount a compulsory scheme electricity supplier must spend under this Part is their non-core spending obligation as notified in accordance with regulation 18A(2)(b).”.
Martin McCluskey
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero 
12th September 2025We consent
Taiwo Owatemi 
Anna Turley
Two of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury
17th September 2025