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  1. Update on the rollout of smart meters

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    A National Audit Office (NAO) report updating on government’s ambition to rollout smart meters across Great Britain

  2. Update on the rollout of smart meters

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    The government has made progress with the rollout of smart meters – but it’s slower than planned and there are challenges in meeting its latest set of targets.

  3. Achieving value for money for government’s environmental goals

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    2021 was a big year for government’s commitments to the environment. The statutory target to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 was backed up with a strategy and the Environment Bill gives legal force to nature recovery targets. The challenge now lies in turning targets and strategies into actions that will combat rising […]

  4. Regulation of private renting

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    This report examines the extent to which the regulation of private renting supports DLUHC’s aim to ensure fairness for renters.

  5. Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme

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    This report examines the performance, implementation, procurement and management of the Green Homes Grant scheme.

  6. Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme

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    This report examines the performance, implementation, procurement and management of the Green Homes Grant scheme.

  7. Protecting consumers from unsafe products

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    This report examines the extent to which the UK’s product safety regime protects consumers from harm, focusing on the OPSS.

  8. Electricity networks

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    This report examines how effectively Ofgem has used electricity network price controls to protect consumers and achieve government’s environmental goals.

  10. Rolling out smart meters

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    This report examines the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy’s progress in rolling out smart meters.

  11. Rolling out smart meters

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    This report examines the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy’s progress in rolling out smart meters.

  14. Infrastructure investment: the impact on consumer bills

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    Large-scale infrastructure spending by the private sector over ten years or more will increase consumer utility bills but government and regulators do not know by how much or whether the bills will be affordable.

  16. The Warm Front Scheme

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    The Department of Energy and Climate Change’s Warm Front Scheme to tackle fuel poverty in England helped to improve the energy efficiency of over 635,000 households between June 2005 and March 2008. According to a report by the National Audit Office there were, however, 1.9 million vulnerable households in 2006, so this rate of progress […]

  17. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Reducing the reliance on landfill in England

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    There is a significant risk that local authorities in England will fail to reduce the amount of biodegradable waste sent to landfill by enough for the UK to meet EU targets, according to a report by Parliament?s spending watchdog. The Government intends to penalise local authorities who fail to make their share of the required […]

  18. Warm Front: Helping to Combat Fuel Poverty

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    The Warm Front scheme for improving the energy efficiency of households suffering from fuel poverty has been more successful than the former Home Energy Efficiency Scheme which it replaced in June 2000. However, according to today’s report to Parliament by head of the NAO Sir John Bourn, the scheme is not reaching those in greatest […]

  19. Inland Flood Defence

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    A National Audit Office report today highlights research by MAFF that up to two million homes and buildings in England are in areas at risk of flooding. The key points in the report to Parliament by NAO head Sir John Bourn are that: The report acknowledges that the Environment Agency has, since its establishment in […]

  20. Office of Gas and Electricity Markets: Giving Domestic Customers a Choice of Electricity Supplier

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, told Parliament today that since electricity supply competition began in September 1998 more than 6.5 million customers – one in four – have saved money by changing supplier. Domestic electricity customers as a whole have seen their electricity bills fall by some £750 million a year since […]