MPs have criticised the government鈥檚 lack of definite goals for its flagship Green Deal scheme.
In a report in the government鈥檚 flagship energy efficiency programme, the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee said the government was unable to outline what success for the Green Deal would look like, and it was 鈥渦nacceptable鈥� that the government was not able to articulate what the scheme鈥檚 objectives were.
The report, the first of a series of reports from the committee on the scheme, said it was 鈥渋mpossible鈥� to hold the government to account because of its lack of direction.
The report said: 鈥淚t is unacceptable that, three years into the life of this parliament, ministers are incapable of defining the actual goals of one of the coalition鈥檚 flagship policies.
鈥淭his is not a question of 鈥榤icromanaging鈥� but rather trying to gain an unambiguous view of what the department expects to happen as a result of its policy intervention.鈥�
The report said the committee was 鈥渟urprised鈥� that energy minister Greg Barker was not able to outline what he felt a successful Green Deal scheme would look like.
The report said: 鈥淭he minister was either reluctant or unable to answer our questions about exactly what he hoped the Green Deal would achieve. For example, when we asked the minister how many homes he expected to have improved over the next five years, what the net benefit per home would be, and what the carbon reduction would be, he was not able to give us a definitive answer.鈥�
It said the details of how the government