Member

I say to the noble Baroness, Lady Grender, on the subject of vulnerable households, that we have kick-started delivery of our ambitious warm homes plan. This will help people find ways to cut energy bills and deliver warmer, cleaner-to-heat homes, with up to 300,000 homes to benefit from upgrades next year. We will continue to refine the warm homes plan. It was very interesting that she mentioned a number of local authorities and initiatives that they have taken. When I was a councillor in Birmingham in the 1980s, we had a scheme in the inner city called enveloping, which essentially took whole streets, put completely new roofs on and made other developments. If you go there now, you will still see the benefits. I very much take this whole-community approach that she mentioned.