Warm Home Discount Scheme
(asked on 16th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many households received funding from the Warm Home Discount Scheme in (a) 2020-2021, (b) 2021-2022 and (c) 2022-23 to date; and how much funding was made available in each of those these years.
The table below provides the relevant breakdown for 2020/21 and 2021/22:
| Spending | Number of households receiving a rebate | Number of customers receiving support from Industry Initiative activities |
2020/21 | £350.7 million | 2.26 million | 468,382 |
2021/22 | £359.4 million | 2.32 million | 327,217 |
For 2022/23, the Government does not yet have data on the number of households that have received funding. The combined spending target for this scheme year across England and Wales and Scotland is £523 million.