I mean, is it any surprise that these sort of schemes slowed up during covid? And as the article points out, rate of rollout is back to pre covid figures. Yeah, it should probably be faster but there’s only so many people you can hire for the job.
The article doesn’t really explain how many houses are proposed to be included on the scheme which seems like a bit of a strange thing to omit. But using the figure being complained about of 2904 per year, times 301 years is 874,104 homes. Scotland estimates there’s [2.51 million homes](https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/households/household-estimates/2020) so that’s 34.8% of all homes are owned by people in fuel poverty. That seems a bit high to me.
Perhaps they’re maybe referring to how many people are *going* to be in fuel poverty after the price cap goes up, that isn’t how they worded it though. But anyway, the cap is not decided by the SNP so I’m not sure how they can blame them for “frightening incompetence” for that. “Cutting energy bills through improved energy efficiency” as they say is really not going to cut it against this proposed cap increase. The daily spend is going to be insane, insulation will save you a tiny bit but nowhere near save you how much the cap has gone up by.
> “Unlike the SNP, Scottish Liberal Democrats are focused on delivering robust and practical solutions,” he continued.
> “That means implementing an emergency nationwide home insulation programme…”
It’s only practical if you have the manpower and resources for it.
Completely agree with the ideas though, another useful step would to be requiring all *new* homes to be built with a minimum of a certain level of insulation. But insulation really isn’t going to be enough against such insane prices.
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I mean, is it any surprise that these sort of schemes slowed up during covid? And as the article points out, rate of rollout is back to pre covid figures. Yeah, it should probably be faster but there’s only so many people you can hire for the job.
The article doesn’t really explain how many houses are proposed to be included on the scheme which seems like a bit of a strange thing to omit. But using the figure being complained about of 2904 per year, times 301 years is 874,104 homes. Scotland estimates there’s [2.51 million homes](https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/households/household-estimates/2020) so that’s 34.8% of all homes are owned by people in fuel poverty. That seems a bit high to me.
Perhaps they’re maybe referring to how many people are *going* to be in fuel poverty after the price cap goes up, that isn’t how they worded it though. But anyway, the cap is not decided by the SNP so I’m not sure how they can blame them for “frightening incompetence” for that. “Cutting energy bills through improved energy efficiency” as they say is really not going to cut it against this proposed cap increase. The daily spend is going to be insane, insulation will save you a tiny bit but nowhere near save you how much the cap has gone up by.
> “Unlike the SNP, Scottish Liberal Democrats are focused on delivering robust and practical solutions,” he continued.
> “That means implementing an emergency nationwide home insulation programme…”
It’s only practical if you have the manpower and resources for it.
Completely agree with the ideas though, another useful step would to be requiring all *new* homes to be built with a minimum of a certain level of insulation. But insulation really isn’t going to be enough against such insane prices.