Less than 5% of green homes grant budget paid out, Labour reveals
Labour is calling for the government’s green homes grant scheme to be extended by at least a year after revealing that less than 5% of the allocated budget has been given to householders.
Nearly five months in, only £71m of the allocated £1.5bn budget for householders has been awarded to those seeking help to move from fossil fuel heating to renewable alternatives.
With just over a year to run, Labour says this rate of delivery exposes significant delays and problems with how the scheme is being administered.
Ministers awarded the contract to run the programme to ICF, a large American consulting corporation based in Virginia.
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