Weekend press reports suggest that senior cabinet figures and some of the Conservative Party's biggest cannons, including communities secretary Eric Pickles, regard the policy as an additional financial burden on hard-pressed homeowners.
Under the scheme, energy-saving home improvements schemes such as loft insulation will be funded by government loans, repaid through a surcharge on domestic energy bills. The scheme is scheduled to launch in October.
A senior Tory told The Sunday Telegraph: “The Green Deal was Chris Huhne’s baby. He has gone now and this is the right time to kill it off. Forcing people to pay thousands of pounds extra for unwanted home insulation is the last thing hard-pressed families need at the moment. It’s madness.”
Only last month the government published a list 22 organisations that had signed up to pioneer the Green Deal. These included Carillion, Keepmoat, SIG and Willmott Dixon.
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