by Matt Trinder
Industrial reporter
CUTTING hundreds of millions of pounds from the government’s green homes scheme will take “a wrecking ball” to jobs, the TUC has warned today.
Funding for the Green Homes Grant, which provides funding for the retrofitting of homes to make them more environmentally friendly, is set to be slashed from £1.5 billion to just £320 million — putting 100,000 promised jobs in doubt.
The flagship policy, announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak as part of his so-called Plan for Jobs in July 2020, had been promoted by PM Boris Johnson as a key part of his “10-point plan for a green industrial revolution.”
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