Ministers defend Tory retrofit policy against industry criticism

By Ben Flatman and Daniel Gayne2022-10-05T11:26:00

Government wants ‘intelligent net zero’, says business secretary

Ministers lept to the defence of the government’s retrofit strategy at the Conservative Party conference yesterday, after repeated criticism from industry figures who say current plans do not go far enough.

Asked why the government was still allowing houses to built that will need to be retrofitted in the near future, Paul Scully, minister of state in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, said the government was “not trying to get to net zero tomorrow. We’re trying to get there by 2050.”

Speaking at the same ConservativeHome event on retrofit, Brian Berry, chief executive of the Federation of Master Builders, said that building such substandard homes was “a nonsense”.

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