Labour response to the government's published costing of opposition policies

A Labour spokesperson said:

“This costing is ludicrous and uses bogus assumptions. They have costed someone else’s policy, not Labour’s.”

Ends.

On background:

Labour’s plans to upgrade homes would ramp up to a maximum of £6bn per year, subject to our fiscal rules.

The Government has the same target. It was first announced in 2017’s Clean Growth Strategy and again in 2021’s Heat and Building Strategy.

Given this is the government’s costings for delivering their own target, it raises questions about whether they have a secret plan to spend [£12-14bn] and how they will pay for it.