Home Energy Efficiency Programmes loan scheme: FOI release

FOI reference: FOI/17/02725
Date received: 9 November 2017
Date responded: 8 December 2017

Information requested

You asked for information on the Home Energy Efficiency Programmes for Scotland (HEEPS) loan scheme.

Specifically:

• How many people have applied for the loan scheme.
• How many have had a successful application.

You further clarified that you were requesting information on all loan schemes:

• How much is the total amount paid out for these loans by year, for the period 2014/15 - 2017/18.

Response

I enclose a copy of the information you requested below.

Our HEEPS loan schemes started in the financial year 2014/15 with a "top up" loan available to customers receiving energy efficiency work through an area based scheme run by their local authority

From 2015/16 onwards we offered a number of loan schemes:

• HEEPS loans - for energy efficiency work to an owner occupier's home.
• HEEPS Private Sector Landlords (PSL) loans - for energy efficiency work within a Private Sector Landlord's property.
• Gas infill loans – for connecting a customer's home to the gas network.
• Warmer Homes Scotland loans —to "top up" any customer contribution required for work carried out under a Warmer Homes Scotland grant work.

The table below sets out applications for each of these schemes.

Loans	HEEPS loan	HEEPS:PSL loan	HEEPS: Gas Infill loan	HEEPS:ABS loan	HEEPS:WHS loan
Loans applied for (total)	1803	262	318	1007	83
Successful loans (total)	1175	178	238	614	59
Value paid 14/15	N/A	N/A	N/A	£42,693	N/A
Value paid 15/16	£1,916,079	See HEEPS loan 15/16	£203,062	£268,949	£5,919
Value paid 16/17	£2,509,124	See HEEPS loan 16/17	£373,151	£241,101	£40,569

Please note the following:

• We have considered "successful application" to mean a loan offer was issued.
• For the HEEPS and HEEPS:PSL paid loan figures, the spend is reported as one value because they began as one scheme, so the values provided are for both PSL and owner occupier paid loans
• For the schemes: HEEPS:ABS and HEEPS:WHS, the figures for applications and offers are from launch of each scheme until 31 March 2017

In addition to these loans to householders, since 2016/17 we have also offered a loan scheme to Registered Social Landlords to enable them to improve the energy efficiency of their stock. Totals for these loans are:

LOANS	HEEPS: RSL loan
Loans applied for	11
Successful loans	9
Value paid 16/17	£3,448,920

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