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The Scottish Executive's Central Heating Programme and the Warm Deal Annual Report 2003-04: BENEFITS FROM HOME ENERGY EFFICIENCY SCHEMES IN SCOTLAND 2003-04: A REPORT BY THE SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE
Description and history of the Warm Deal
The Scottish Executive's Warm Deal comes in two parts:
- The largest part is administered for the Scottish Executive by a company called Eaga Partnership Ltd and covers all tenures of housing.
- Local authorities administer the other part for works to their own stock.
Warm Deal (as administered by Eaga)
This part of the Warm Deal was introduced on 1 July 1999. Households are eligible providing they are normally in receipt of one or more state benefit. A smaller grant of up to £125 is available for pensioner households not on benefit. Households can have any combination of works from the following package, up to a maximum of £500:
- cavity wall insulation;
- loft insulation;
- hot and cold tank insulation;
- pipe insulation;
- draught proofing; and
- energy advice and up to four energy-efficient lightbulbs.
The scheme covers all sectors of the stock and provides places for New Deal trainees. £8.156 million was spent by Eaga in 2003-04 improving 21,600 properties.
Warm Deal (as administered by local authorities)
Local authorities run this part of the scheme for their own stock. In 2003-04 the Warm Deal Programme was modified to allow local authorities to spend money on upgrading properties with partial central heating and to encourage them to invest in innovative solutions to tackle fuel poverty.
A total of £2.5 million was spent by local authorities under the Warm Deal Programme. Table 1 shows the breakdown of expenditure.
Table 1
Category | Number of properties benefiting | Spend |
Basic insulation | 5,920 | £837,512 |
Upgrading partial central heating systems | 487 | £1,188,408 |
Innovative measures | 1,236 | £487,945 |
A list of the local authorities who participated in the different parts of the Warm Deal is given in Appendix 1.
A number of authorities supplemented their cash grant with funding from other sources such as the Housing Revenue Account; useable receipts and rent surpluses; EC Social Funding; and partnership with the power companies under the Energy Efficiency Commitment.
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