'Wasteful and baffling': Government urged to stop funding gas boilers through fuel poverty grant scheme

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The race is on to replace the UK's gas boilers, which will begin being phased out from 2025
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The race is on to replace the UK's gas boilers, which will begin being phased out from 2025

All subsidies for heating systems that undermine the UK’s climate goals must come to an end, analysts warn

The government risks undermining its own building decarbonisation agenda if it moves ahead with proposals to subsidise tens of thousands of new gas boilers in low-income homes between now and 2026, experts...

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