United Kingdom

A plan for jobs

Executive

Plan

Policy

Passed in 2020

This document is the UK's policy response to the COVID-19-induced economic crisis. It outlines a number of stimulus measures, including a "green homes grant" scheme budgeted at 2 billion pounds aimed at enhancing energy efficiency, and a 1.1 billion pound plan to decarbonise the public sector and social housing. The Green Homes Grant scheme introduced as part of this policy response was discontinued in March 2021.

Documents

Link to official webpage (English)

Climate targets in this law

7 targets

£450M for the Short Term Home Building Fund to support 7,200 new homes in England and to boost the housing supply in the market.

Economy-wide | Base year: 2020
£12.2Bn Affordable Homes Programme to support 180,000 new homes, as well as £12.2Bn to be spent over 5 years (2020-2025/6) on new homes.

Economy-wide | Target year: 2025 | Base year: 2020
£40M to be invested into the courts and tribunal estate to aid environmental sustainability cases.

Environment | Base year: 2020
£1Bn of additional funding to develop and embed the next generation of cutting-edge automotive technologies.

Transport | Base year: 2020
£100M invested into the research and development of Direct Air Capture.

Environment | Base year: 2020
£40M will be invested by the government into the Green Jobs Challenge Fund to create and protect 5,000 jobs involved with the natural environment.

Environment | Base year: 2020
By 2032, the clean growth strategy will aim to halve greenhouse gas emissions from the public sector with the help of a £1Bn fund over the next year.

Energy | Target year: 2032 | Base year: 2020