Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to develop an integrated national energy efficiency strategy between central and local government, industry, the third sector and local communities.

The Government is committed to tackling climate change and to the UK’s Climate Change Act. Improving our energy efficiency and decarbonising buildings will be key to meeting our domestic commitments, as we look towards 2050.

Having set the fifth carbon budget (2028-2032), we are now looking ahead to our emissions reduction plan, which will be published in 2017. This will set out how we will reduce emissions through the 2020s, and will include important roles for central and local government, industry, the third sector, and local communities in delivering energy efficiency.