Green Deal Scheme: Appeals
(asked on 30th September 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 1 May 2019 to Question 246545 on Green Deal Scheme: Appeals, how many of the 107 outstanding cases referred to her have been with her office for (a) one, (b) two, (c) three, (d) four, (e) five, (f) six, (g) seven, (h) eight, (i) nine, (j) 10, (k) 11 and (l) 12 months or longer without a final decision having been made.
At 2nd October 2019 there are 129 outstanding appeals, relating to the company Home Energy & Lifestyle Management Ltd (HELMS), which have been referred to my rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State. The table below provides details of the age of the outstanding appeals.
Months outstanding | Number of appeals |
1 or under | 1 |
2 | 0 |
3 | 6 |
4 | 3 |
5 | 8 |
6 | 13 |
7 | 20 |
8 | 12 |
9 | 7 |
10 | 2 |
11 | 3 |
12 | 4 |
Longer than 12 months | 50 |
Of these cases, 18 are from households in the Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency. The table below provides details of the age of these outstanding appeals.
Months outstanding | Number of appeals |
1 or under | 0 |
2 | 0 |
3 | 0 |
4 | 0 |
5 | 0 |
6 | 3 |
7 | 6 |
8 | 0 |
9 | 0 |
10 | 1 |
11 | 1 |
12 | 1 |
Longer than 12 months | 6 |
Since the answer given by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State on 1 May 2019 to Question 246545, there have been four Sanction Notices issued (final decisions) in respect of complaints about mis-selling of the Green Deal by HELMS but no further Intention Notices. We expect to issue a number of Intention Notices in response to such appeals shortly.
The final decisions in Sanction Notices may be subject to appeal to the First tier Tribunal.