Boilers: Government Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what estimate he has made of the total cost to his Department of administering the boiler scrappage scheme. (321074)

[holding answer 9 March 2010]: The Government estimate that the total cost of administering the boiler scrappage scheme over its lifetime will be around £1.8 million which equates to 3.6 per cent. of scheme costs.