Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, pursuant to the Answer of 18 March 2014, Official Report, column 536W, on the Green Deal Scheme, how much of the £200 million announced in November 2011 has (a) been spent, (b) been allocated for expenditure and (c) not yet been allocated for expenditure.

Of the £200 million announced in November 2011, as of the end of March 2014, £142.98 million had been spent by DECC.

The figure given for spend in 2013-14 includes the recently launched Green Deal Communities programme – an £88 million fund to support 24 local authority consortia (covering c100 local authorities in total) to deliver Green Deal street by street. In addition, as part of the Autumn Statement, the Government announced that £450 million will be made available to support household energy efficiency incentives over the next three years.