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The UK Green 好色先生TV Council (UKGBC) has urged Rishi Sunak to follow through on his suggestion in the summer that hundreds of millions of pounds be diverted into insulating homes.

Sunak, during the first of this year鈥檚 Conservative party leadership contests in July, s saying he wants to see money currently focused on heat pumps and decarbonisation measures for public buildings instead refocused on an insulation programme for people on low incomes.

Sunak said: 鈥淚f we can refocus that money to do these types of interventions, which are quicker and cheaper, that seems like a sensible thing for us to be focusing on.鈥� 

Simon McWhirter, director of communications, policy and ideas at UKGBC, today said: 鈥淚n his last campaign to become PM, Rishi Sunak rightly promised to lead a national effort to cut energy waste and insulate millions of homes.

鈥淭hat would help tick every box. Our industry is ready to support him to deliver on it鈥�

He added the change of prime minister gives the 鈥渃hance for a fresh start鈥� and to 鈥減ut in place the strategic long-range policies that can turn around the UK鈥檚 fortunes on energy security and cost of living鈥�.

Sunak is expected to carry out a Cabinet reshuffle later today and tomorrow.

McWhirter also called on Sunak to ditch former prime minister Liz Truss鈥� investment zones policy. The zones, announced in last month鈥檚 mini-budget, will operate under a simplified planning process, with lower environmental regulations and are intended to stimulate or speed up development of residential and commercial sites.

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He said: 鈥淭his was a recipe for more conflict and delay over new home and building developments. Businesses don鈥檛 want a race to the bottom. Instead, they need certainty and ambition to deliver much-needed green growth and investment. That鈥檚 why our planning system needs to be overhauled to bring it into line with the UK鈥檚 legally-binding climate and nature commitments.鈥�