A slam-dunk fail: watchdog MPs launch scathing attack on green homes grant

By Jordan Marshall2021-12-01T09:44:00

Public accounts committee ‘not convinced’ that business department grasps full scale of the scheme’s failure

The government’s disastrous green homes grant “underperformed badly” and has “damaged confidence” in its ability to deliver future net zero plans, the public accounts committee (PAC) has said.

In its report on the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy initiative published this morning, the PAC said it was “not convinced that BEIS has fully acknowledged the scale of its failures with this scheme”.

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