Green Homes Grant to be pulled this week

By Joey Gardiner2021-03-29T09:34:00

Abolition of £3bn domestic energy retrofit scheme is ‘misguided’, construction firms say

Construction firms have criticised the government’s decision to scrap the troubled Green Homes Grant energy efficiency improvements scheme later this week.

Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the scheme, which spent just a fraction of the £1.5bn allocated to it in the first six months of its operation, would now close to new applications from 31 March.

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