Question reference: S6W-23661
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 7 December 2023
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Current status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 21 December 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many entities have been named as installers on Home Energy Scotland (HES) Grant and Loan scheme applications, broken down by (a) local authority area, (b) type of low-carbon heat technology and (c) type of energy efficiency measure.
Answer
From the launch of the Home Energy Scotland (HES) Grant and Loan Scheme in December 2022 to September 2023, 1013 unique installers were listed on applications to the scheme.
The following table shows the number of unique installers that have been listed on applications to the scheme in each local authority area:
Local Authority | Unique Installers |
Aberdeen City | 71 |
Aberdeenshire | 123 |
Angus | 69 |
Argyll and Bute | 82 |
City of Edinburgh | 189 |
Clackmannanshire | 35 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 100 |
Dundee City | 58 |
East Ayrshire | 50 |
East Dunbartonshire | 63 |
East Lothian | 91 |
East Renfrewshire | 52 |
Falkirk | 66 |
Fife | 149 |
Glasgow City | 119 |
Highland | 123 |
Inverclyde | 32 |
Midlothian | 60 |
Moray | 53 |
Na h-Eileanan Siar | 18 |
North Ayrshire | 56 |
North Lanarkshire | 80 |
Orkney Islands | 15 |
Perth and Kinross | 114 |
Renfrewshire | 60 |
Scottish Borders | 120 |
Shetland Islands | 17 |
South Ayrshire | 48 |
South Lanarkshire | 120 |
Stirling | 93 |
West Dunbartonshire | 28 |
West Lothian | 97 |
Where an installer has been listed on applications to the scheme in several different local authority areas, they have been counted as a unique installer under each area.
The information requested for type of low-carbon heat technology and type of energy efficiency measures could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.