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Planning and Energy Bill

My hon. Friend makes an important point. The energy efficiency rating for the home information pack will draw the problem to the attention of the purchaser of the property, but it will not go beyond that. It would be interesting if, for instance, on a street of similar houses, the energy efficiency rating could be made more widely available to the owners of all the houses. If people's houses were built at the same time, they might have the same construction problems. Although several hundred people have taken up the Warm Front scheme in my constituency, I am still amazed at how few have taken advantage of what is essentially free money—and not just free money to do the improvements, but free money in the long term, through the reduction of heating bills. Although the people who run the scheme in my patch are good at telling me what is going on, I am not entirely sure that they are doing as much as they could to tell the wider community what is available. That could be done through various means, including pensioners groups, outreach work—