Local Authority Delivery Scheme Phases 1 and 2: evaluation
Final report of the independent evaluation of the Local Authority Delivery Scheme Phases 1 and 2, including process and outcome findings.
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Phases 1 and 2 of the Green Homes Grant: Local Authority Delivery Scheme (LAD 1&2) were one of four ‘Green Economic Stimulus’ programmes launched in 2020 to help property owners install energy efficiency improvements and low carbon heat measures in their properties.
The scheme aimed to reduce fuel poverty in participating households, transition properties to low carbon heating, and support the country’s economic recovery from COVID-19.
The former Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) commissioned Ipsos, in partnership with the Building Research Establishment (BRE), to conduct a process and outcome evaluation of the scheme.
Report coverage
The report covers process evaluation evidence relating to:
- participation of local authorities in the Scheme
- delivery models adopted
- identification of eligible homes
- barriers to delivery
- engagement of households
- energy efficiency installations delivered
- installers’ willingness and capacity to participate
- costs
and outcomes evaluation evidence relating to:
- consumer experience (including fuel poverty and health outcomes)
- energy, carbon, and bills savings
- influence of PAS 2035
- extent to which the Scheme created and supported jobs
- extent to which the Scheme created confidence across the supplier market
The technical annex includes:
- evaluation question matrix
- theory of change
- methodological approach
- contribution analysis and process evaluation framework
- qualitative and quantitative data collection methods
- desk research and analysis of monitoring information
- methodologies for fuel poverty, energy, carbon, and financial savings analysis
- limitations
- survey profiles, analysis and charts