House of Lords written statement – made at on 7 March 2013.
Baroness Hanham
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Further to my Written Ministerial Statement of
The relevant extract from the Statement was as follows:
The Energy Saving Trust research found that consequential improvements, even with Green Deal finance in place, would put off 38% of households from going ahead with building work on their property that they were otherwise planning (Energy Saving Trust, Exploratory Research into Building Regulations in relation to the Green Deal, page 37).
The corrected version is as follows:
The Energy Saving Trust research found that consequential improvements, even with Green Deal finance in place, would put off 38% of small and medium firms and 34% of households from going ahead with building work on their property that they were otherwise planning (Energy Saving Trust, Exploratory Research into Building Regulations in relation to the Green Deal, pages 37 and 26).
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