A government minister has admitted that the introduction of the governments’ botched Green Homes Grant (GHG) household energy efficiency scheme was rushed. During a debate in the House of Lords earlier this week on the GHG, which was cancelled in April last year after delivering only a fraction of the intended home upgrades, Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist said no-one could disagree that “a number” of lessons had been learnt from the scheme’s failure.