HC Deb 14 March 1983 vol 39 cc44-5W
Mr. Field

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in the Official Report a table giving, by quarter since their inception, for England (a) the number of dwellings insulated under the local authorities energy conservation programme and a breakdown of the bodies which completed the work, (b) the cost of the programme, (c) the number of dwellings insulated under the home insulation scheme and a breakdown of tenancies to whom the grants were paid, (d) the amounts of the payments, (e) the number of 90 per cent. grants paid and their cost, and (f) the financial allocation for each of the past financial years to each of these schemes and the allocation for the current financial year.

Sir George Young

Available quarterly figures of numbers of dwellings in England insulated under the energy conservation programme and the home insulation scheme, from third quarter 1979 to third quarter 1982 appear inHousing and Construction Statistics tables 2.18 of issue 7 and 2.16 of issue 11: the earlier figures for the home insulation scheme are in table 2.16 of issue 4. Copies of these publications are in the Library.

The other information requested is as follows.

Energy Conservation Programme
thousand dwellings
Work completed by
Quarter Direct labour Contractor Special temporary employment programme All
1978
2 0.9 2.5 2.0 5.4
3 4.7 7.3 4.6 16.6
4 33.3 32.0 27.6 93.0
1979
1 30.4 71.5 28.5 130.3
2 16.1 61.8 24.8 102.7

Energy conservation programme
Home insulation scheme
Capital payments Grant payments
£ million £ million
1978
2 0.2
3 0.7
4 3.1 3.2
1979
1 8.4 5.1
2 4.4 3.1
3 6.2 2.4
4 6.2 4.0

Capital payments Grant payments
£ million £ million
1980
1 12.2 4.6
2 3.3 2.8
3 3.2 1.9
4 3.6 4.6
1981
1 3.0 6.0
2 1.3 5.2
3 1.2 5.0
4 2.3 5.8
1982
1 5.7 6.7
*2 1.7 5.6
*3 1.9 6.0
* Provisional.

Home Insulation Scheme: 90 per cent. Grants Paid
Thousand dwellings Payments £ million
1980
4 21.1 1.7
1981
1 23.1 2.1
2 20.0 1.6
3 19.0 1.6
4 22.1 1.9
1982
1 23.4 2.6
*2 23.7 2.1
*3 23.7 2.2
* Provisional.

Allocations to Local Authorities
£ million
Energy conservation programme Home insulation scheme
1978–79 24.2 19.3
1979–80 28.1 25.5
1980–81 No separate allocations 16.7
1981–82 24.6
1982–83 32.8

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