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Plumbers merchant Plumb Center has launched its manifesto at the House of Commons, which sets out a series of policy recommendations with the aim of creating a more energy conscious society.
The manifesto includes plans designed to support consumers, the industry and the government to meet the combined goals of greater energy and water efficiency.
On Monday 28 October, representatives and guests of Plumb Center were in London for the event, which was hosted by Laura MP Sandys – Parliamentary Private Secretary to MP Greg Barker, Minister for Climate Change.
Tim Pollard, Plumb Center’s head of sustainability, is one of the driving forces behind the manifesto. He said: “As an industry we need to be doing everything we can to ensure people’s bills are manageable, homes and businesses are efficient, and carbon emissions are kept to a minimum.
“In the UK we have the oldest and most inefficient building stock in Europe. These wasteful homes are using more energy than they need to and people are paying the price through rising energy and water bills.
“Our manifesto is designed to be a mixture of ‘blue skies’ policy thinking and more practical industry-led solutions, and we hope it will move the debate on and ultimately get more people to look at ways to make energy and water efficient improvements to their homes and businesses.”
MP Sandys said: “This manifesto is setting standards and setting an agenda that we, as politicians, must look to, but also the whole industry needs to start to address.
“If politicians spent as much time talking about energy efficiency, energy waste and helping people reduce their consumption as they do about energy bills, we would be in a better place.”
