The government has missed a big opportunity to show it is serious about climate change The government’s response to the Future Homes consultation is hugely disappointing in its neglect of energy efficiency improvements, says Geoff Wilkinson Just in time for its role chairing COP 26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, the government has finally published its response to the Future Homes Standard consultation. However, no mention is made in it of requiring energy efficiency improvements to the whole house whenever householders carry out significant improvement, refurbishment or renovation work. This is hugely disappointing, as a previous proposal to require such ‘consequential improvements’ was made in the draft 2006 revision of Part L of the Regulations. But the government at the time chose to limit the provision to premises larger than 1,000m