§ Mr. Rostasked the Secretary of State for Energy what action he is taking to help promote solid fuel-burn in the domestic market by encouraging the construction of chimneys in new homes.
§ Dr. John CunninghamAs I said on 13th February 1978 in reply to the hon. Members for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Smith) and Ross and Cromarty (Mr. Gray)—[Vol. 944, c. 13–14]—the question of providing a choice of fuels in houses in the public sector is primarily one for the Department of the Environment and local authorities. The Department of Energy is represented on a Joint Working Party on Heating and Energy Conservation in Public Sector Housing chaired by the Department of the Environment. The working party has already touched upon the question of flues in new local authority housing and intends to look further into the design considerations for heating systems in new housing and into the choice of fuels.