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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answer

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what was the total budget for the warm front schemes in the (a) Eaga area and (b) eastern area during 2001-02; and (i) how much and (ii) what percentage of these budgets (1) has already been spent and (2) is projected to be spent by the end of the year given present trends; and what measures Eaga and eastern are expected to take to bring budgets back into line if they are depleted before the end of the year. [25354] Mr. Meacher: [holding answer 9 January 2002]: The home energy efficiency scheme (HEES), now marketed as the warm front team, is administered by two scheme managers, TXU Warm Front Ltd. (responsible for the eastern, east midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber) and Eaga Partnership Ltd. (responsible for the rest of England). The table provides the information requested. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Eaga Partnership TXU Warm Front Total HEES budget 2001-02{1} (£ 139 54 193 million) Percentage of budget already 65 67 -- spent Percentage likely to be spent by 100 100 -- year end _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} The budget for 2001-02 includes the moneys not used in the previous financial year The scheme managers have sufficient resources to meet demand in this financial year. The major difficulty that they continue to face is the national shortage of gas heating engineers. Both scheme managers continue to recruit installers and thereby improve the quality of service provided to householders.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

378 c611-2W;378 c608W; 25354

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Conservation Finance Expenditure Energy Households Grants Insulation Heating Warm front scheme EAGA East of England

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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