Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Meg Hillier Excerpts
Wednesday 20th July 2022

(1 year, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Rachel Hopkins Portrait Rachel Hopkins (Luton South) (Lab)
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4. What assessment he has made of the potential role of energy efficiency in meeting the UK’s climate targets.

Meg Hillier Portrait Dame Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch) (Lab/Co-op)
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6. What assessment he has made of the potential role of energy efficiency in meeting the UK’s climate targets.

Tony Lloyd Portrait Tony Lloyd (Rochdale) (Lab)
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8. What assessment he has made of the potential role of energy efficiency in meeting the UK’s climate targets.

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Alok Sharma Portrait Alok Sharma
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The Government are making £6.6 billion available over this Parliament to improve energy efficiency, and nearly half the homes in England are now rated band C or above, compared with 14% in 2010. On the wider point, we need an even bigger focus on energy efficiency in homes and buildings, as it will also help our energy security by driving down demand and bringing down people’s bills.

Meg Hillier Portrait Dame Meg Hillier
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The Government have had a series of failed programmes on home insulation: the green new deal failed, and the recent green homes grant scheme failed, as the Public Accounts Committee has repeatedly reported. Does the Minister have any confidence that the Government will listen and tackle this major cause of emissions? If it is not tackled, it will put a serious dent in achieving the target of net zero by 2050.

Alok Sharma Portrait Alok Sharma
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The Government will, of course, respond to the report on the green homes grant, but I point out that some elements of it—the local authority delivery element and the social housing decarbonisation fund—have provided significant amounts of funding.