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Treasury wants public sector to focus on energy efficiency of new buildings

by admin October 25, 2018October 26, 2018
written by admin October 25, 2018October 26, 2018
Treasury wants public sector to focus on energy efficiency of new buildings

Minister says new hospitals and schools can save taxpayers money if new builds are more efficient

Improving the energy efficiency of the public sector estate will be part of the Treasury’s upcoming pan-Whitehall spending review, one of the department’s junior ministers has signalled.

At a fringe meeting at the Conservative party conference last week, exchequer secretary Robert Jenrick identified greater energy efficiency as key to achieving better value for taxpayers’ money when the Treasury conducts its next review of government spending next year.

He said: “We would like this to be one of the focuses of the spending review that the government is doing next year: how to make sure taxpayers’ money is being spent wisely through the lens of energy efficiency.

“If we build schools, hospitals and public buildings we want commissioning authorities in the first instance to be thinking about what is the most modern, efficient way of building. We would like that to flow through into energy efficiency.

“I hope the public sector can lead the way and that can flow through into the whole of society. Energy efficiency is one of the best value for money interventions that the government can make.”

But Iain Conn, chief executive of the British Gas-owner Centrica, expressed doubts that the energy efficiency message is getting through to the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

He said: “The good news is that the Treasury is really listening. The bad news is that BEIS hasn’t got off the starting blocks.”

A separate meeting at the conference heard a call for Winter Fuel Payments, which gives pensioners £100 to £300 over the winter months to help with their fuel bills irrespective of income, to be scrapped and the money redirected towards energy efficiency measures.

Richard Howard, head of research at consultancy Aurora Energy, said: “That money could easily be redirected to doing something about energy efficiency. It’s not going to win grey votes but the government needs to think big on that.

“We need big push on energy efficiency: it doesn’t get you all the way there but gets you part of the way.”

And he called for new regulation to improve the energy efficiency of the UK’s new build housing. “Let’s sort out the basic things. That means we have set of regulations that at least drive in the right direction.”

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