Chamber and committees

Question reference: S5W-24859

Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: 22 August 2019
Current status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 17 September 2019

Question

To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it has made available to local authorities to carry out SEEP (Scotland's Energy Efficiency Programme) pilots since September 2016.

Answer

Since 2016 the Scottish Government, through Scotland's Energy Efficiency Programme, has made available the following:

SEEP Phase 1 (2016-17 – 2017-18) - £9,100,000 was made available
SEEP Phase 2 (2017-18 – 2018-19) - £11,000,000 was made available
Transition Phase (2018-19 – 2019-20) - £5,500,000 was made available
Decarbonisation Fund (2018-19 – 2019-20) - £3,500,000 was made available

This year the Scottish Government has made available a further £3.5 million on this year’s Decarbonisation Fund Phase 2. The deadline for applications to this was the 23rd of August 2019. Funding awards will be made in due course.

Funding which has been awarded to projects from September 2016 till August 2019 totals £17,264,263.29.

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