§ Mr. WigginTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister how much was spent on grants to aid energy efficiency in each year since 1997. [160875]
§ Mr. MorleyI have been asked to reply.
Defra currently provides grants to aid energy efficiency through four main routes:
The Carbon Trust—to support and promote energy efficiency and low carbon innovation for business and public sector;1688WThe Energy Saving Trust—to support and promote energy efficiency in the domestic sector;The Community Energy programme—capital and development funding to refurbish existing and install new community heating schemes;The Warm Front programme—to provide energy efficiency measures to the vulnerable.The funding made available by my Department and its predecessors to support and promote efficiency measures in each year since 1997 (including the Energy Saving Trust and the Carbon Trust) is of the scale set out in the following table.
£million 1997–98 110.5 1998–99 109.0 1999–2000 112.0 2000–01 119.0 2001–02 256 2002–03 225 2003–04 1243 1Budget. These figures include the Energy Efficiency Best Practice programme, support for the Energy Saving Trust (from 1996), Fuel Poverty and for the Carbon Trust (from 1 April 2001). Energy Saving Trust funding for Scotland was devolved from 1 July 1999. The new Home Energy Efficiency Scheme (now marketed as the Warm Front Team) was launched in England in June 2000. Between 1991–1999, the Home Energy Efficiency Scheme covered the whole of Great Britain. Funding was devolved to Scotland in July 1999 and to Wales in April 2000.