Government Spent £800 Million on Net Zero Home Refits

The government has spent nearly £800 million on grants for refitting homes with insulation measures aimed at achieving net zero emissions. In a written question on Tuesday, the government revealed that it has spent £787 million since 2020 on a net zero insulation installation program called the Local Authority Delivery Scheme (LAD). It had spent this entire sum on 58,892 homes. But critics said that fully retrofitting every domestic building stock in the UK could cost trillions. The LAD scheme allocates funds to local authorities to convert “low income and low energy performance homes” to help “phasing out high carbon fossil fuel heating.” It uses grants of up to £10,000 to cover expenses such as insulation installation....