Insulation grants are funded by all UK Energy Suppliers with more than 50,000 customers (domestic households), these are British Gas, NPower, E.ON, EDF, Scottish Power and Scottish & Southern Energy. Energy companies are contracted to provide funding as part of a wider obligation placed on them by the Government to reduce household emissions across the [...]

Ministers are planning to penalise poorly insulated homes in the form of higher stamp duty, it was announced yeseterday. The scheme is part of the Government’s wider target to reduce UK’s carbon emissions by 15% by 2020. Insulation grants not being claimed The Government is said to be concerned that homeowners are still not taking [...]