Government should reduce energy demand from buildings by:
- extendingthe Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund to deliver £5.1bn of capital spending on energy efficiency improvements between 2024 and 2030 and devolve directly to local authorities to deliver the programme
- continuing the obligation on energy companies to install energy efficiency improvements in households on lower incomes, delivering £8.8bn of capital spending between 2024 and 2035
- providing zero per cent financing for households and small businesses for the cost of energy efficiency installations
- setting out, by the end of 2025, a plan to tighten and enforce minimum standards in the private rented sector.
