Member

The noble Earl, Lord Russell—or was it the noble Earl, Lord Effingham? I cannot remember—and the noble Baroness, Lady Coffey, mentioned the park homes scheme. We have considered the responses to the recent consultation that we carried out on this matter. Although we recognise the need to support fuel-poor households that do not have a direct relationship with an energy provider, we have decided not to proceed with the expansion of the park homes WHD scheme at the current time because doing so would have meant taking budget away from other industry initiatives, which was strongly opposed in the consultation. The other way it would work would be to increase vastly the cost of the WHD scheme but, again, that would increase the impact of the scheme on other consumers.