Decarbonising the Housing Stock

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Housing and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:57 pm on 14 October 2020.

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Photo of Jenny Rathbone Jenny Rathbone Labour 2:57, 14 October 2020

Well, excellent work going on in social housing. Retrofitting existing homes is obviously a major challenge for us, as I see that 1,000 homes are to be retrofitted as part of the COVID recovery programme, but there must be hundreds of thousands of existing homes that need retrofitting to meet our zero carbon targets, as we have probably the oldest housing stock in Europe. So, I hope that our COVID recovery strategy will embrace that challenge. On a more urgent note, before the internal market Bill prevents devolved administrations from ever taking the action needed, what is being done to fast forward change in the new building regulations so that all new homes meet those zero-carbon standards?