England green homes scheme was ‘slam dunk fail’, says public accounts committee

Dame Meg Hillier says scheme cost 50m and delivered only a fraction of objectives

The government's green homes grant scheme underperformed badly and risks damaging future efforts to deliver net zero, the public accounts committee (PAC) said.

Hailed by the prime minister, Boris Johnson, as a key plank in his green industrial revolution, the grants only upgraded about 47,500 homes out of the 600,000 originally planned. They also delivered a small fraction of the expected jobs.