Households are being offered up to £5,000 to replace their gas boiler with a low carbon heat pump alternative as part of efforts to cut emissions from homes.

The incentive is a part of the government's target for all new heating system installations to be low carbon by 2035 - but ministers insisted families are not going to be forced to remove their existing fossil fuel boilers.

UK households are being offered £5,000 grants to replace gas boilers with more environmentally friendly heating methods, such as heat pumps.

This is part of the government's aim to cut heating emissions, where £450 million has been allocated to the boiler upgrade scheme. It will run over three years and serve 90,000 homes.

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The government is to offer £5,000 to people in England and Wales to replace their gas boilers with heat pumps.