Emissions: Housing

Baroness Boycott Excerpts
Monday 22nd June 2020

(4 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Boycott Portrait Baroness Boycott (CB) [V]
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Retrofit is a resource-intensive job creator, and therefore a good way to come out of the pandemic in a sustainable way, so what commitment have the Government made to retrofit publicly owned or publicly funded buildings, including all our schools and educational facilities?

Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan [V]
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We have a number of schemes which public buildings and others can take advantage of. The noble Baroness raises a very good point. We will continue to insulate and upgrade as many of these buildings as possible.