UK’s £450m boiler upgrade scheme is failing to deliver

Only a third of low-carbon heating scheme's annual budget has been used since launch in May 2022

A scheme to encourage UK households to upgrade their gas boilers to heat pumps and other low-carbon alternatives is failing to deliver after suffering a disappointingly low" take-up, a parliamentary report has said.

Members of the House of Lords environment and climate change committee have written to ministers urging them to boost the profile of the 450m boiler upgrade scheme, after discovering just a third of its annual budget had been used since its launch last May.