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Twenty-Ninth Report - The Affordable Homes Programme since 2015
Public Accounts Committee
HC 684
Published 7 December 2022
Recommendations
5
Acknowledged
New homes built under the Programme may need expensive retrofitting to meet net-zero standards in...
Recommendation
New homes built under the Programme may need expensive retrofitting to meet net-zero standards in the future. The Department did not set any standards around net-zero for the Programme and relies on housing providers to comply with relevant standards. This …
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Government Response Summary
The government agrees to set out the impact of including net-zero requirements in the next iteration of the Programme when ministers consider options for a successor programme; however, they note that the 2021 programme incorporated the National Model Design Code standard and that homes must meet existing and future building regulations.
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Conclusions (1)
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Conclusion
Acknowledged
The Department said that it thought the National Audit Office recommendation to annually update forecasts was useful and that it was a sensible thing for the Department to do.56 The NAO report had also noted that the Department accepted that it needed to make improvements around data and performance reporting, …
Government Response Summary
The government agrees to provide an annual report to Parliament on programme delivery, acknowledging that it doesn't currently hold all the data requested and will confirm what information it can share in its first report.