Caroline Flint – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Caroline Flint on 2014-07-15.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 9 July 2014, Official Report, column 305W, on housing energy, what programmes, projects and policies were funded under the financial support allocated to the Green Deal Programme in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2013-14.
Amber Rudd
Financial support allocated to the Green Deal Programme has chiefly funded the following projects and policies:
Delivery of these schemes was, or is, funded by the obligated energy companies, not Government, and administration is undertaken by Ofgem. Ofgem is funded by DECC for the administration of CESP and ECO.
Delivery of the Energy Saving Advice Service – a telephone response service taking calls from the public and the industry, providing advice to people enquiring about information on the Green Deal or household energy efficiency measures. This service remains in operation.
Funding for the Green Deal Oversight and Registration Body – the independent governance body for the Green Deal supply chain. This remains in operation.
DECC’s investment in The Green Deal Finance Company.
Core Cities – a project to enable bids from Local Authorities of the Core Cities to install energy-saving measures in their housing stock, mostly in 2012/13. This has been completed.
Green Deal Cashback – a scheme to provide grant funding to support households in the installation of energy-saving measures. The scheme opened in January 2013 and closed to new applicants on 30th June 2014.
Green Deal Communities – a scheme to provide funding for Local Authorities to implement energy-saving measures in their housing stock. Funding was available in 2013/14.
Supporting IT development and systems – the procurement, supervision and control of IT systems to enable Energy Performance Certificates, Green Deal Assessments and Green Deal financing to be delivered to applicants.
Funding the administration by Ofgem of:
- Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP) – closed.
- Energy Company Obligation (ECO) – open.
