To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how much funding the Government has allocated through grant funding schemes for local authorities to implement net zero projects in the last year.
Answered on
11 September 2023
It is not possible to provide a figure for the total amount of net zero grant funding available to local authorities because this depends on the decisions local authorities make themselves about how they use the funding available to them. Through their core settlement, grant funding schemes, and UK growth funding, Government provides a wide range of funding to support local authorities to tackle net zero goals.
The Government has established the UK Infrastructure Bank with an initial £12 billion of capital. One of the bank’s core objectives is to support regional and local economic growth. This includes a lending facility of £4 billion for local authorities at preferential rates.
Individual Government grant funding schemes each have their own monitoring and evaluation processes.