An investigation has begun into the sudden closure of a
cashback scheme for households to install energy-efficient home improvements,
amid concern that many of the applications in a last-minute deluge were not genuine.
The Green Deal Home Improvement Fund, which opened in June, offered households
up to £7,600 each to install measures such as solid wall insulation and double
glazing. The fund closed abruptly on July 24, without notice, due
to “overwhelming popular demand”. The Department of Energy and Climate Change
(DECC) had announced reductions to the cashback rates two days earlier.
Jonathan Reynolds, Labour’s opposition energy minister, questioned whether the
deluge of applications was caused by “the speculative activity of those seeking
to get their hands on as much public subsidy as possible” in a letter to the
public accounts committee. Read more on the Daily Telegraph website.
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