Energy Performance Certificates

Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 8 May 2009.

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Photo of John Bercow John Bercow Conservative, Buckingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment she has made of the effect on the effectiveness of energy performance certificates of enabling the Act on CO2 advice line to contact home buyers and sellers to advise on support in improving the energy rating of their homes.

Photo of Margaret Beckett Margaret Beckett Minister of State (Department of Communities and Local Government) (Housing)

No such assessment has been made. We are working with the Energy Savings Trust, who operate the Act on CO2 advice line, to identify homes with poor energy efficiency ratings and to better target their advice.

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