Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will publish the next biennial report to Parliament required by Section 6 of the Sustainable and Secure Buildings Act 2004.
Since the last parliamentary report, the Government has made significant progress in improving the environmental sustainability of the built environment. In December 2021, the Government implemented an uplift to Part L (conservation of fuel and power) of the Building Regulations that delivers a meaningful reduction in carbon emissions and marks an important step on our journey towards a cleaner, greener built environment.
The Heat and Buildings Strategy sets out the further steps we will take to improve the energy efficiency of buildings and decarbonise heating, including a Future Homes Standard in 2025, and the Net Zero Strategy has set out our vision for a decarbonised economy in 2050.
We will publish, in due course, a new report setting out the details of these changes to the Building Regulations and all other matters set out in Section 6 of the Sustainable and Secure Buildings Act 2004.