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<p>The Government is fully committed to meeting its target of net zero carbon emissions
by 2050 and recognises the important contribution that the energy efficiency of buildings
has to make in meeting it.</p><p>We have committed to introduce a Future Homes Standard
from 2025 which means that new homes in England will be fit for the future, with low
carbon heating and lower energy use through high levels of thermal insulation. In
October 2019 we published a consultation on the Future Homes Standard which proposed
that new homes built to this standard should have carbon dioxide emissions 75-80 per
cent lower than those built to current building regulations standards. These homes
will be zero carbon ready: once the electricity grid decarbonises they will become
zero carbon heated homes.</p><p>As a stepping stone to the Future Homes Standard,
we have also consulted on a meaningful and achievable increase to the energy efficiency
standards for new homes to be introduced through the Building Regulations in 2020.</p><p>The
Future Homes Standard consultation closed on 7 February 2020. The responses we have
received will be considered carefully and a Government response will be published
in due course.</p>
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