Domestic Buildings (Energy Efficiency)

Part of Energy and Climate Change – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 4 June 2009.

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Photo of Julian Lewis Julian Lewis Shadow Minister (Defence) 10:30, 4 June 2009

Is it not a fact that between 1997 and the present day there has been hardly any improvement in household energy efficiency in the United Kingdom, according to ODEX, the index that measures these matters, and is it not a fact that in the preceding period—the years leading up to 1997—there was a 14 per cent. increase in household energy efficiency? What is it about this Government that has destroyed the improvement, as measured by the internationally accepted standard?