The Government is announcing its new scheme for grants for retrofitting. Ministers signed off on the Home Energy Upgrade Scheme earlier this afternoon. 

Tom Parlon, Director General of the Construction Industry Federation, joined Kieran to discuss whether the ambition that they're showing can actually come to fruition…

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