Chamber and committees

Question reference: S6W-22669

Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: 2 November 2023
Current status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 16 November 2023

Question

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide (a) further information on the demographics of the 6,000 applications to the Home Energy Scotland Grant and Loan scheme since its launch in August 2023 and (b) a breakdown by (i) the age of applicants, (ii) the median household income of applicants and (iii) local authority area.

Answer

The Home Energy Scotland (HES) Grant and Loan Scheme was launched in December 2022. The figures provided show the demographic between this launch date and the end of August 2023.

The scheme is open to all domestic owner occupied households in Scotland, and therefore data on the age and income of applicants are not collected as part of the application process. In the following table, the data requested has therefore been supplied by local authority area only.

Local Authority	Applications
Aberdeen City	152
Aberdeenshire	457
Angus	155
Argyll and Bute	314
City of Edinburgh	561
Clackmannanshire	55
Dumfries and Galloway	240
Dundee City	114
East Ayrshire	90
East Dunbartonshire	133
East Lothian	169
East Renfrewshire	124
Falkirk	121
Fife	443
Glasgow City	262
Highland	440
Inverclyde	43
Midlothian	107
Moray	191
Na h-Eileanan Siar	43
North Ayrshire	126
North Lanarkshire	182
Orkney Islands	72
Perth and Kinross	314
Renfrewshire	128
Scottish Borders	232
Shetland Islands	64
South Ayrshire	100
South Lanarkshire	294
Stirling	166
West Dunbartonshire	32
West Lothian	217
Total	6,141

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