Question reference: S6W-22669
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 2 November 2023
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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 |