To improve the UK’s housing stock to energy performance certificate (EPC) band C level will require up to £65 billion worth of investment, Claire Perry has revealed.
Fresh retail energy market legislation may be on the cards before the next election as the result of a government review, details of which emerged yesterday (5 March).
The government has announced plans for an upcoming statutory instrument (SI) to amend several pieces of EU energy legislation which will become “retained direct EU law” as the UK leaves the European Union.
The upper house of parliament backed, by 193 votes to 192, a Labour amendment to the government’s capping legislation by introducing a permanent relative cap on prices.