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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Helena Horton Environment reporter

MPs and wealthy landowners among beneficiaries of green subsidy

Anne-Marie Trevelyan
The international trade minister, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, is among the beneficiaries of the subsidy, Open Democracy has found. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

A minister, MPs and several aristocratic landowners have received thousands in public funds from a government subsidy intended to stimulate the green transition.

The renewable heating incentive was set up in 2014 to help businesses, public sector and non-profit organisations meet the cost of installing renewable heat systems by paying them a tariff for each unit of heat produced from renewable sources. A parallel system was set up for homes.

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