Winter Heating Initiatives Debate
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Baroness Garden of Frognal
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Winter Heating Initiatives
Baroness Garden of Frognal Excerpts(2 years, 4 months ago)
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Lord Callanan (Con)
The noble Baroness makes a powerful point. I point to the public sector decarbonisation scheme, for which I am responsible, which has already rolled out billions of pounds’ worth of improvements to all our public buildings to help make them more energy efficient.
Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD)
My Lords, £400 to households is surely a profound waste of public money since a lot of it is going to people who really do not need it. Why can the Government not target the money more closely at people who truly need it?
Lord Callanan (Con)
I look forward to seeing the Liberal Democrats campaigning on taking away from people money that has been allocated. It is a universal payment but of course there are considerable extra funds that have been closely targeted. There are shortages and problems across the economy. That is one part of the package but there are many other parts of the package directed at those most in need.