'Immediate threat' warning to anyone who had insulation under scheme

'Immediate threat' warning to anyone who had insulation under scheme View Image

Almost all homes fitted with external wall insulation under a flagship scheme need major issues fixing, the government spending watchdog has found. Poor quality installations, inadequate monitoring and weak government oversight have left thousands of homes that should have benefited from energy efficiency measures facing problems such as damp and mould or even immediate threats to people’s safety, the National Audit Office (NAO) said.

It warned that “clear failures” in the ECO programme to tackle fuel poverty and cut carbon emissions had led to poor-quality installations and suspected fraud. In response to the NAO’s findings, anti-fuel poverty campaigners warned the system had “let cowboys through the fro