INTRODUCTION OF HOME INFORMATION PACKS

leave out from `House' to end and insert `notes that the Government has at last tabled some of the necessary regulations for the planned implementation of home information packs, and that they relate to the vital issue of the reduction of carbon emissions from homes, currently responsible for 27 per cent. of all emissions, but regrets that the failure to bring forward all necessary regulations in a timely way, leading to postponement of the roll-out of essential pilot schemes, may result in serious difficulties at the commencement of the compulsory scheme in July 2007, and that the lack of clear evidence of sufficient trained and certificated inspectors threatens to completely undermine confidence in the scheme; therefore calls on the Government to publish without delay all missing information, to accelerate the training of inspectors, and to implement full pilot roll-outs quickly, so that a realistic assessment can be made of the viability of the nature and date of introduction of the compulsory scheme; and further calls on the Government to limit the scope of the scheme to that required by the EU Directive, rather than the current gold-plated alternative.'.