Help required: mystery of British Gas and a £3 million Giveaway

PhylPho

Ken: it's a fair point. But perhaps Magnabooster is a unique product, so is the only device around that can magnetically filter impurities in a heating system.

If that is the case, then, the scenario would appear to be that:

(a) "Government grant aid" (British Gas's own words) was made available to fund an energy efficiency programme directed at UK households with at least one member aged over 60 but not in receipt of any State benefit;

(b) the "grant aid" took the form of funding the cost of a central heating boiler filtration device, and its installation;

(c) the chosen device was the Magnabooster manufactured by UK company Spirotech; the company which won the contract to undertake the installations was British Gas;

(d) the agency via which grant aid funding was channelled was Warm Front (according to posts from other MSErs who say they were given this information by British Gas.)

Unknown at this time is how an initiative funded from the public purse, and therefore for the benefit of the public at large, seems to have finished up being directed solely to the benefit of customers of British Gas Homecare policies.

We will of course be delighted to learn that such wasn't the case -- if, and when, Warm Front, British Gas, or anyone else is *finally* able to provide some overdue facts about this

PhylPho

Ken: it's a fair point. But perhaps Magnabooster is a unique product, so is the only device around that can magnetically filter impurities in a heating system.

If that is the case, then, the scenario would appear to be that:

(a) "Government grant aid" (British Gas's own words) was made available to fund an energy efficiency programme directed at UK households with at least one member aged over 60 but not in receipt of any State benefit;

(b) the "grant aid" took the form of funding the cost of a central heating boiler filtration device, and its installation;

(c) the chosen device was the Magnabooster manufactured by UK company Spirotech; the company which won the contract to undertake the installations was British Gas;

(d) the agency via which grant aid funding was channelled was Warm Front (according to posts from other MSErs who say they were given this information by British Gas.)

Unknown at this time is how an initiative funded from the public purse, and therefore for the benefit of the public at large, gives every appearance of finishing up solely of benefit to customers of British Gas Homecare policies.

We will of course be delighted to learn that such wasn't the case -- if, and when, Warm Front, British Gas, or anyone else is *finally* able to provide some overdue facts about this surprisingly under-publicised "Government grant" initiative.