Green Homes Grant to be scrapped this week

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Abolition of £3bn domestic energy retrofit scheme is ‘misguided’, construction firms say

Construction firms have branded the government’s decision to scrap the troubled Green Homes Grant energy efficiency improvements scheme as misguided and damaging.

On Saturday business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the scheme, which spent just a fraction of the £1.5bn allocated to it in the first six months of its operation, would now close to new applications from 31 March.

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