Spending watchdog tears into government over botched Green Homes Grant scheme

By Joey Gardiner2021-09-08T07:42:00

Abandoned £1.5bn domestic retrofit discount scheme will help less than a tenth of the homes originally targeted

Government auditors have slammed the “unacceptable” delivery of the £1.5bn Green Homes Grant scheme designed to help fund 600,000 green domestic retrofits – but which was closed this spring after paying out just £36m in vouchers.

A National Audit Office report released today said the scheme was delivered to an over-ambitious timetable and “not executed to an acceptable standard”, with NAO head Gareth Davies describing it as “rushed”.

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