'Help out to heat up': Government offers new grants to train next wave of heat pump engineers

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Over 60 locations in England to offer heating engineers £500 discounts on training courses to become fully qualified heat pump installers

The government has announced a new incentive to encourage heating engineers to learn to become heat pump installers and will now offer them £500 towards approved training courses through its new £5m Heat...

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