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» Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Greener Homes Initiative

Asked if the Government had the support of the Scottish Government to introduce legislation on linking any loans to the home rather than the individual, the PMS said he would check. The PMS said that we were at the trial stage at the moment; any legislative requirement would be taken into account if the scheme was rolled out nationally.

Asked where the figure of 65,000 jobs came from, the PMS said that this was an estimate. There was obviously scope for new jobs in this area as people would need to be trained to carry out this kind of work.

Asked whether the Government was confident of convincing people to take up the scheme as it would take 15 years for people to pay the loans off, the PMS replied that this initiative was primarily about long-term measures such as solar panels or insulation that could make a real difference to peoples heating bills.

Put that the amount of time it would take to pay off the initial expenditure would put people off, the PMS said that some of these initiatives had a big upfront capital cost; this proposal was designed to smooth out the initial cost, so people could start paying it off straight away.

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