Energy Performance Certificates: Private Rented Housing
Commons · Question 22111 · Tabled 28 Aug 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · Official record
Answered 8 Sep 2026
Question
Asked by Helen Morgan
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps her Department is taking to protect vulnerable tenants living in residential dwellings legally classified as commercial lets, where the commercial classification of the tenancy exe
Answer
Answered by Martin McCluskey, 8 Sep 2026
Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) apply to domestic privately rented properties let on assured, regulated, or domestic agricultural tenancies, or standard tenancy in Wales, where an EPC is required. MEES also apply non-domestic properties that ar...