Home Energy Scotland application and installation statistics: EIR release

Information requested

For each month since the launch of the Home Energy Scotland scheme:

1. The number of applications received.

2. The number of applications which were approved.

3. The number of applications which included the installations of heat pumps which were approved.

4. The number of heat pump installations completed in that month.

5. The number applications whose work was completed in that month.

Response

As the information you have requested is ‘environmental information’ for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.

This exemption is subject to the ‘public interest test’. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.

As per my acknowledgement of 04 March 2024, I have interpreted ‘Home Energy Scotland scheme’ as the Home Energy Scotland Grant and Loan Scheme, which was launched in December 2022. The data provided is from the launch date to end of December 2023, which is the most recently available complete financial quarter.

Data provided may include applications made under the previous Home Energy Scotland Loan and Cashback Scheme, but which were not approved or completed prior to the launch of the Home Energy Scotland Grant and Loan Scheme.

Please see attached spreadsheet with the collated information.

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EIR 202400400863 - Information released - Attachment

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