Oral Answers to Questions

Barry Gardiner Excerpts

Thursday 5th February 2015 Commons Chamber

[Joan Walley (Stoke-on-Trent North) (Lab)]

13. What steps he is taking to help households improve their energy efficiency.

[Barry Gardiner (Brent North) (Lab)]

14. What steps he is taking to help households improve their energy efficiency.

[Alex Cunningham (Stockton North) (Lab)]

15. What steps he is taking to help households improve their energy efficiency.

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[Mr Davey]

Let me reassure the hon. Lady that energy efficiency is at the heart of our policies. That is why we have managed to achieve our 1 million target early, and why I have put forward legislation for the private rented sector, which I hoped the hon. Lady would welcome. She might be interested to know that today John Alker, acting chief executive officer of the UK Green Building Council said:

“This could be the single most significant piece of legislation to affect our existing building stock in a generation”.

I am proud that this Government have introduced that.

[Barry Gardiner]

What specific energy efficiency measures has the UK proposed should be included in the European INDC—intended nationally determined contributions—and how will the Secretary of State ensure that, unlike the domestic green deal, a rate of success is not promised in one year when less than half of it has been achieved in two?