'This approach puts control in customers' hands': Green economy reacts to new Warm Homes Plan

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Business leaders, campaigners, and climate policy experts react to the long-awaited release of the government's £15bn Warm Homes Plan

The government's Warm Homes Plan has today promised to mobilise £15bn of public funds to upgrade to up to five million homes, help lift up to a million families out of fuel poverty, and triple the number...

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