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Home Energy Efficiency Scheme: Grants

Volume 467: debated on Tuesday 20 November 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many grants under the Home Energy Efficiency (Warm Front) Scheme have been offered to householders in (a) England, (b) the South West and (c) Torridge and West Devon; and how many of those grants have been taken up by the applicants. (164822)

During the financial year 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2007, Warm Front provided grants to 253,079 households. Of these, 19,424 were in the South West and 511 were in Torridge and West Devon.

For the same period, 99 per cent. of householders offered a grant in England accepted. Of the 1 per cent. who did not, 96 per cent. had received a grant previously.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what Eaga’s average administration cost was for grants made under the Home Energy Efficiency Scheme (Warm Front) in the latest period for which figures are available. (164910)