Home Energy Efficiency Scheme

Mr. Cox
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the average individual financial contribution was to the cost of works quoted for by Eaga approved contractors for the purpose of a Home Energy Efficiency Grant required of those to whom a grant has been offered in (a) England, (b) rural areas and (c) urban areas in the latest period for which figures are available.

Mr. Woolas
[holding answer 15 November 2007]: From 1 June 2005 to 31 October 2007, the average individual financial contribution of all Warm Front applicants in England was £85.40. The financial contributions of those living in rural and urban areas, for the same time period, were £140.71 and £76.12 respectively.