The Government is set to ditch plans to ban new gas boilers from 2035 despite pushing for people to switch to heat pumps.

Home builders will be effectively banned from installing gas central heating and boilers in new homes under the government’s efforts to meet net zero targets.

However, a policy to stop owners of older homes from replacing existing gas boilers with new ones from 2035 is to be scrapped, according to the i paper.

Heat pumps, which are powered by electricity to heat homes and…