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Britain pays a high price for personal prejudice |
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Thursday, 15 July 2010 |
 The removal of key words from the proposals to strengthen standards in Parts F and L of the Building Regulations is costing over £700m in savings
An arbitrary decision, made by one Minister in June 2009, is costing the nation approaching three-quarters of a billion pounds. And the public justification he gave directly contradicted all the objective facts provided for him, all of which his fellow Cabinet Ministers had endorsed. The full scandal behind this wilful perversity has finally come to light over a year on, but only thanks to the refusal by the Freedom of Information Commissioner to put up with a litany of obfuscation which the Minister set in train, to stop the true facts emerging. The issue concerns a last-minute decision by the government to drop plans to make property owners improve the energy efficiency of the original building, whenever an extension is constructed. Or in the terminology, to avoid expanding the building’s overall “carbon footprint.” PDF Version |
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Key Ministerial commitments to energy efficiency |
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The Minister for Climate Change, Greg Barker, highlighted the importance of energy efficiency as a key tool in meeting our carbon targets during the Energy Efficiency debate on 30th June: ‘there is one over-arching simple truth: the cheapest energy we all have to pay for is the energy we do not use’ col 870 ‘I also want to focus the discussion on energy efficiency, because it is the most important and the best value for money consideration in terms of saving carbon’ col 872 |
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