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Closure of the Low Carbon Buildings Programme to new Applications - Effective from (06.00 am) Monday 24th May 2010

Government has announced that it is committed to delivering £6bn of departmental spending cuts in 2010/11.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is contributing £85m to this total.  The sum reflects the fact that DECC operates with relatively small admin costs but still delivers against a big and challenging agenda.

Cuts of this level are never going to be easy. They come from two sources:

  • About half come from efficiencies and other savings across our central spending and that of our arm’s length bodies. We have focused on making efficiencies in our back office functions first but some efficiencies in our programmes of work are also possible. This will amount to approximately £42 million.
  • The other half comes from cutting or slowing down planned expenditure. This will amount to approximately £43 million.

It is therefore with regret that we announce that as of 06.00 am Monday 24th May 2010, the Low Carbon Building Programme (LCBP) will close to all new applications.  For further information, please visit the Low Carbon Buildings Programme website.

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