Clause 1 - Targets for energy efficiency improvements
Home Energy Conservation Bill
4:30 pm
Mr Joe Benton (Bootle, Labour)
I remind the Committee that with this it will be convenient to take the following amendments:
No. 55, in page 1, line 18, leave out subsection (2) and insert—
'(2) For the purpose of enabling an energy conservation authority to discharge its functions pursuant to subsection (1) (a) above the appropriate authority shall, after consultation with such energy conservation authorities, representatives of registered social landlords, utility companies and other persons as the authority considers appropriate make regulations requiring:
(a) utility companies to report annually to a person prescribed in the regulations;
(b) registered social landlords, manager of government funded energy efficiency schemes and the Energy Saving Trust to report annually to energy conservation authorities;
in a format prescribed in the regulations on improvements in energy efficiency that result from measures taken by them (and different formats may be prescribed for different cases) provided that in the case of utility companies the regulations:
(i) shall not require any company to report to any energy conservation authority; and
(ii) shall not involve any company in any significant expense over and above that agreed under the Energy Efficiency Commitment; and
(iii) shall require that any information so provided by any utility company need be provided only on the basis of totals per postcode and for the avoidance of doubt shall not identify any particular address; and
(iv) shall be in a format to be agreed between the person prescribed and the utility company prescribed in the regulations, which agreement shall not be unreasonably withheld; and
(v) shall require the person prescribed in the regulations to report to energy conservation authorities; and
(vi) shall require that any information so provided to an energy conservation authority shall not identify any utility company'.
No. 8, in page 2, line 1, leave out 'stipulated' and insert 'prescribed'.
No. 9, in page 2, line 2, leave out 'them' and insert—
'the body making the report and in the case of the Energy Saving Trust also by the utility companies (and different formats may be prescribed for different cases).'.