New Clause 4 - Reports under section 1 of the Sustainable Energy Act 2003: energy efficiency of residential accommodation
Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill
2:15 pm
Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test, Labour)
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
I hope that the Committee will agree to the new clause, whose aim is straightforward: to bring into the mechanism of the Sustainable Energy Act 2003, which contains requirements on annual reports on progress towards sustainable energy aims, the targets that are set out in section 217 of the Housing Act 2004. That section requires the Secretary of State to
“take reasonable steps to ensure that by 2010 the general level of energy efficiency of residential accommodation in England has increased by at least 20 per cent. compared with the general level of such energy efficiency in 2000.”
The purpose of the new clause is to add to the annual reports on progress towards sustainable energy aims provided for in the Sustainable Energy Act 2003 an annual report on that particular aim referred to in the Housing Act 2004. The new clause would also require a report to be given each year that examines both the
“emissions of carbon dioxide ... and ... the number of households in which one or more persons are living in fuel poverty.”
Such a provision would give some reporting milestones to the aim set out in the Housing Act 2004.