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More retrofit measures were installed through Green Deal finance plans than ever before in the month before the Green Deal was axed, according to official figures.

The latest Green Deal and energy company obligation figures released today by the Department for Energy and Climate Change report 1,568 measures were installed in June 2015, over two hundred more than the previous month.

May’s figures were also revised up, with 1,314 measures installed under the finance plans as opposed to the 1,295 mentioned in last month’s statistical release.

The number of households with measures installed under Green Deal finance plans was also at its highest in June, with 1,112 households using the Green Deal to have energy efficiency measures fitted.

Meanwhile, the number of Green Deal Home Improvement Fund vouchers paid out in July, the same month the scheme was scrapped, plummeted to just 421 compared to 2,097 the previous month.

The government announced it was stopping funding for the Green Deal Finance Company and Green Deal Home Improvement Fund last month, citing low take-up and concerns over industry standards.

DECC confirmed that ECO would be protected from the axing of Green Deal, and figures show that 33,091 measures were installed under the policy in June this year, up from 29,603 in May.

However, the figures for June were still the third lowest since May 2013, with many in the industry believing energy suppliers are winding down activity in advance of meeting their ECO targets by spring 2016, a year before the March 2017 deadline.

DECC has commissioned Peter Bonfield, chief executive of the BRE, to lead an independent review of its energy efficiency schemes and recommend new policy.