§ Mr. Fieldasked 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 YoungAvailable 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 45W
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