EIR/202600508218 · FOI/EIR · not held
Total number of homes that have received replacement central heating systems through Warmworks programmes: EIR release
Information requested
The total number of Scottish homes benefitted to-date from replacement central heating systems through all Warmworks programmes.
Response
As the information you have requested is ‘environmental information’ for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.
This exemption is subject to the ‘public interest test’. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.
Under regulation 10(4)(a) of the EIRs (information not held), the Scottish Government is not required to provide information which it does not have. The Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested because we do not hold/record what systems were in the household before a new central heating system has been installed so we are unable to confirm if the new central heating system is a replacement.
Warmworks are an independent organisation and not part of the Scottish Government this means that we don’t have information about all central heating systems that Warmworks may have installed. I can however provide the number of heating systems that have been installed by Warmworks through a Scottish Government funded programme where we hold that information.
The Scottish Government currently has three active programmes where Warmworks participates within the broader delivery. These programmes are Warmer Homes Scotland (WHS), Area Based Schemes (ABS), and the Social Housing Net Zero Fund (SHNZF).
The only programme where Warmworks holds direct contractual responsibility with the Scottish Government is Warmer Homes Scotland where they are appointed as the managing agent for the Warmer Homes Scotland programme, I present information on the number of heating installs below.
Warmworks do not maintain a direct operational or contractual relationship with the Scottish Government for our Area Based Schemes, however we do have information on heating systems installed through Warmworks which I have presented below.
Under the Social Housing Net Zero Fund, social housing providers are responsible for all aspects of their projects, including the contractors/delivery partners that they choose to deliver the project, and our grant agreements are solely with housing providers themselves. I am unable to provide information for the Social Housing Net Zero Fund.
Warmer Homes Scotland Heating systems installed since 2015 – February 2026:
43,664
Area Based Scheme Councils that have had heating measures installed by Warmworks from 2020 – February 2026:
Orkney – 2020/21- 323 Western Isles – 2023/24 – 13 Shetland – 2025/26 – 7
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Detected exemption language
We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA. This exemption is subject to the ‘public interest test’. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. Under regulation 10(4)(a) of the EIRs (information not held), the Scottish Government is not required to provide information which it does not have.
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