There should be 2 paragraphs in this text. Select where the second paragraph begins. The Green Deal, the government’s ambitious scheme to slash household carbon emissions and save energy, has run into problems. It has a target to transform the energy use of 10,000 homes this year. So far, the score is just two. In response, ministers insist its performance is improving, but critics say it has been exploited by thousands of homeowners to subsidise new boilers that they would have bought anyway.