UK PM urged to avoid false choice between hospitals and homes. 50 organisations join call to UK government to avoid a “false choice” between hospitals, heat pumps, and home insulation with ECO Plus scheme. A group of nearly 50 organisations representing finance, fuel poverty, local authorities, academia, retrofit, manufacturing and civil society have written to the Prime Minister to fund new energy efficiency support with new public spending commitments, rather than by diverting much-needed funding from schemes supporting critical energy-saving measures for public buildings like schools and hospitals. While the groups warmly support a well-designed “ECO Plus” scheme for those at risk of fuel poverty, they warn against removing money from the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (PSDS) or other existing green homes budgets (such as the Boiler Upgrade Scheme), as was suggested might be the case in recent media coverage.
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