Warmer Homes Scotland survey applications: EIR release

Information requested

1. A breakdown of how many survey applications Warmer Homes Scotland received in the years 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23.

2. A breakdown of how many surveys were carried out by Warmer Homes Scotland in each of the years 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23.

3. A breakdown of how many installations were carried out by Warmer Homes Scotland in each of the years 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23.

Response

As the information you have requested is ‘environmental information’ for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.

This exemption is subject to the ‘public interest test’. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.

Response to your request

Please note that we have interpreted this request to only relate to the first phase of Warmer Homes Scotland, we have also interpreted survey applications to mean applications that have been passed to Warmworks following an initial eligibility check from Home Energy Scotland.

	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21	2021/22	2022/23
Survey applications (applications received)	5,728	5,598	6,577	7,508	12,877
Surveys Completed	5,376	5,075	5,917	7,732*	10,746
Installed Households	3,818	3,607	2,904	5,311	5,478

*higher number of surveys completed than applications received in 2021/22 is due to delayed applications during Covid-19.

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