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Households impacted by the Home Energy Efficiency Programmes: FOI release

Published: 5 May 2022
Directorate: Energy and Climate Change Directorate
Part of: Energy, Public sector
FOI reference: FOI/202200285189
Date received: 3 March 2022
Date responded: 22 March 2022

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

Information requested

Please tell me the number of households impacted by the Home Energy Efficiency Programmes for Scotland (HEEPS), for the years (i) 2016/17, (ii) 2017/18, (iii) 2018/19, (iv) 2019/20, and (v) 2020/21, broken down programme and by local authority area.

Response

I enclose a copy of some of the information you requested. Please note that this information is collected on a regional basis as the service is delivered regionally as opposed to a local authority basis and so the Scottish Government does not hold information for surveys and installs at local authority level.

The table below shows the number of households helped on a regional basis.

Region	Warmer Homes Scotland Completed Installations 2016/17	Warmer Homes Scotland Completed Installations 2017/18	Warmer Homes Scotland Completed Installations 2018/19	Warmer Homes Scotland Completed Installations 2019/20	Warmer Homes Scotland Completed Installations 2020/21
Islands	242	335	216	235	132
Highlands	584	419	347	282	210
North East	906	719	626	496	430
South West	589	532	370	400	258
South East	1031	1027	815	699	586
Strathclyde and Central	1974	1799	1444	1495	1288
Total	5326	4903	3818	3607	2904

I have included below a table of surveys undertaken by region.

Warmer Homes Scotland – Surveys undertaken on a Regional Basis

Survey Completed Year	Highlands	Islands	North East	South East	South West	Strathclyde & Central	Grand Total
2016/17	772	343	1,386	1,718	982	3,139	8,340
2017/18	499	384	1,000	1,380	700	2,289	6,252
2018/19	432	303	875	1,239	525	2,001	5,375
2019/20	393	317	752	1,046	526	2,039	5,073
2020/21	415	273	943	1,224	583	2,469	5,907
GRAND TOTAL	2511	1620	4,956	6,607	3316	11,937	30,947

The following table shows a breakdown of numbers of loans issued through the Home Energy Scotland loan scheme. We do not hold this information by the number of households receiving a loan because, in some cases households apply for more than one loan.

Local Authority	Number paid -20/21 budget	Number paid -19/20 budget	Number paid -18/19 budget	Number paid -17/18 budget
Aberdeen City	38	46	43	33
Aberdeenshire	97	112	97	60
Angus	26	32	44	26
Argyll & Bute	107	55	72	31
Clackmannanshire	14	5	11	3
Dumfries & Galloway	44	44	49	33
Dundee City	11	24	53	36
East Ayrshire	11	23	30	16
East Dunbartonshire	12	10	19	13
East Lothian	29	40	37	32
East Renfrewshire	9	6	17	12
Edinburgh, City of	82	131	163	134
Eilean Siar	11	19	22	8
Falkirk	26	30	41	30
Fife	81	83	144	73
Glasgow City	48	70	97	73
Highland	129	124	129	102
Inverclyde	9	8	9	6
Midlothian	12	17	24	41
Moray	39	32	28	17
North Ayrshire	39	49	53	27
North Lanarkshire	25	23	49	35
Orkney Islands	31	48	26	13
Perth & Kinross	62	64	82	45
Renfrewshire	14	31	30	17
Scottish Borders	49	54	72	41
Shetland Islands	23	18	15	5
South Ayrshire	26	22	35	19
South Lanarkshire	49	59	87	46
Stirling	39	50	45	28
West Dunbartonshire	4	17	8	4
West Lothian	30	43	45	33
TOTAL	1226	1389	1676	1092

The following data shows the numbers of loans taken through the Equity loan scheme over the last 5 years.

Local Authority	Number of Lloans
Argyll & Bute	19
Dundee City	3
Eilean Siar	4
Glasgow City	19
Inverclyde	2
Perth & Kinross	23
Renfrewshire	4
Stirling	2
Total	76

The numbers of households helped and completed measures through the ABS programme are available to view on our webpage here Area-Based Schemes - gov.scot (www.gov.scot). Individual breakdown by year and local authority area can also be accessed through the webpage as well, this is under ‘Annual Final Measures Reports’.

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Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000

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