§ Mr. DjanoglyTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the target is for domestic energy efficiency improvements. [74227]
§ Mr. MeacherThe UK Climate Change Programme envisages savings of carbon emissions from domestic energy efficiency measures of up to 5 million tonnes a year by 2010.
The Government has announced its intention to produce a Domestic Energy Efficiency Strategy to ensure delivery of these savings and work on this is being taken forward in the context of the production of the Energy White Paper, which the Government aims to publish around the turn of the year. The White Paper will also address the recommendation of the Performance and Innovation Unit's Energy Review that Government develop energy efficiency targets for each sector of the economy, including a 20 per cent. improvement in domestic energy efficiency by 2010.