Vulnerable group climate resilience
Failure to adequately engage communities and vulnerable groups to understand their disproportionate risks from extreme weather events.
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#15 - Vulnerable groups are disproportionately affected by extreme weather, with mitigation knowledge gaps.
People experience different levels of exposure to extreme weather. Factors such as location, income and health affect people’s ability to cope with and respond to these events. For example, lower income households may be more likely to live in properties at flood risk, which are less expensive to buy or rent, and be less likely to be able...
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terms: group, resilience, vulnerable
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#4 - Engage communities and vulnerable groups to understand risks and impacts, ensuring better protection.
In building resilience to extreme weather events, it will be vital to better understand how different communities and groups will be disproportionately affected. People experience different levels of exposure to extreme weather. Factors such as location, income and health affect people’s ability to cope with and respond to these events. Better understanding of vulnerability to the impacts of...
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terms: group, resilience, vulnerable
Committee recommendation
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#35 - Property Flood Resilience remains inaccessible, deepening inequalities and leaving communities vulnerable.
Flood resilience is not only about individual protection but about sustaining communities, businesses, and housing markets. Property Flood Resilience (PFR) must be mainstreamed as a core part of flood recovery, rather than treated as an optional add-on. Without reform, PFR will remain inaccessible to those who need it most, deepening inequalities and 66 leaving households and businesses vulnerable...
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terms: resilience, vulnerable
Committee recommendation
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#19 - ODA resourcing decisions must prioritise greatest need in fragile and climate-vulnerable states.
In the coming years, the greatest need will be in fragile and conflict- affected states, and states most vulnerable to climate change. Working in partnership to address these needs mutually benefits the affected countries and the UK. The empowerment and equipping of these states, and their civil society organisations, should be central to the FCDO’s approach. Resourcing decisions...
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terms: climate, vulnerable
Committee recommendation
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#37 - Flood insurance system is inadequate, threatening household stability and market access without reform.
Flood insurance is not just a financial product but a cornerstone of household and market stability. Without reform, growing risk and the eventual withdrawal of Flood Re will leave vulnerable households uninsured, businesses exposed, and communities at risk of economic decline. Uninsurable or repeatedly flooded properties risk becoming unmortgageable, depressing local housing markets and trapping families in unsellable...
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terms: climate, resilience, vulnerable
Committee recommendation
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#16 - Cabinet Office plans 2025 measures to support vulnerable groups, acknowledging long way to go.
The Cabinet Office has committed to implementing several measures by 2025 to better support vulnerable groups. One of these is developing a measurement of socio- economic resilience, including how risks impact across communities and vulnerable groups to guide and inform decision making on risk and resilience. Another measure is offering better guidance to local resilience forums and local...
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NAO recommendation
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Government resilience: extreme weather
LGDs, working with the Cabinet Office, should develop a set of resilience standards for infrastructure and give regulators consistent climate resilience roles. Government has already committed to improve standards for resilience by 2030. It should set out a pathway to deliver these standards. Giving regulators consistent roles would enable greater coordination across regulators to improve resilience across sectors.
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terms: climate, resilience
Committee recommendation
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#20 - Upholding rights and potential of marginalised groups and women should be UK ODA priorities.
Upholding the rights of marginalised groups, as well as realising the potential of women and girls in both achieving societal resilience and poverty reduction, should be strategic priorities for UK ODA. This must be reflected in the spending allocations. (Conclusion, Paragraph 41)
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terms: group, resilience
Committee recommendation
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#16 - Evaluate cooling centre effectiveness and publish advice for authorities supporting vulnerable populations during extreme heat.
While there is potential for cooling centres to be an important part of future resilience measures for those most vulnerable to heat impacts, evidence of their effectiveness is not clear cut at present. We recommend that UKHSA evaluate the potential use of cooling centre initiatives as a policy response to excessive heat, with a view to developing and...
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terms: resilience, vulnerable
Committee recommendation
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#10 - Prepare detailed action plan for Central Asian climate adaptation, mitigation, and regional cooperation
The vulnerability of all five Central Asian countries to climate change is real and severe. Without rapid and concerted action, the consequences of food and water insecurity pose threats to regional and global resilience. It is in our mutual interest to shoulder this burden together. However, due to the uncertainties of future water resources in the region and...
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terms: climate, resilience
Committee recommendation
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#21 - Ensure FCDO retains expertise and provides gender-specific funding to empower marginalised groups.
The FCDO must have the expertise and resources required to empower marginalised groups in decision-making forums, as well as the ability to equip them in their efforts to bring about lasting change in their communities. The FCDO will need to ensure that, through its spending allocations, it retains centralised and local gender expertise. It will also need gender-specific...
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Committee recommendation
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#7 - Assess and adjust trade, agriculture, climate, and gender programmes for smallholder farmers.
We recommend the Government assess its trade, agriculture, climate and gender programmes against the impact they have on smallholder farmers. Where necessary, these programmes should be adjusted to mitigate harm against smallholder famers and to enhance their place within sustainable food systems. (Recommendation, Paragraph 29)
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terms: climate
Committee recommendation
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#3 - Assess UK climate finance and agricultural investments for climate impact on food systems.
We recommend the Government conduct an assessment of UK climate finance to ensure it addresses the impact of climate change on nutrition and food systems. The UK’s agricultural investments need to be assessed more rigorously for the adaption and mitigation challenges posed by climate change. (Recommendation, Paragraph 16)
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terms: climate
Committee recommendation
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#2 - Climate change and hunger remain intrinsically linked, government climate finance for food systems is recognised.
Climate change and hunger are intrinsically linked. We recognise the emphasis the Government is putting on improving the impact of climate finance as it relates to food systems. (Conclusion, Paragraph 15)
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terms: climate
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#4 - Better integrate climate threat modelling into displacement work planning.
Climate change is a current and growing driver of displacement, and the Department must better integrate the modelling of climate threats into its planning for its displacement work. (Conclusion, Paragraph 48)
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Committee recommendation
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#39 - Consult on strengthening insurance in flood resilience and pilot Flood Performance Certificates by 2025.
By the end of 2025, the Government should consult with insurers and stakeholders on strengthening the role of insurance in flood resilience. This should include promoting and simplifying access to the Build Back Better scheme. The Government should support the development and piloting of Flood Performance Certificates (FPCs) as a voluntary tool to improve awareness of property flood...
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terms: resilience
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#36 - Consult on mainstreaming Property Flood Resilience as routine flood recovery and reforming grants.
The Government should consult on how to make Property Flood Resilience (PFR) a routine part of flood recovery. This consultation should explore options for reforming the existing grant scheme to provide consistent, needs-based funding and wider accessibility, including simplifying the process, updating grant levels, and extending eligibility to renters and social housing tenants. Any changes should be implemented...
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terms: resilience
Committee recommendation
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#5 - Set out measures to increase data for climate adaptation and displacement prevention planning.
In its response to this report, the FCDO should set out the measures it is taking to increase the data available to policy teams when planning medium to long-term climate adaptation investments; and whether prevention of climate-induced displacement is one of the criteria that these teams must remain cognisant of. (Recommendation, Paragraph 49)
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#23 - Prioritise funding for flood-risk communities and design framework for fairer, inclusive outcomes.
As the Government prepares to implement the new investment framework from April 2026, it must prioritise funding for communities most at risk from flooding. A simpler system must also be a fairer one, capable of supporting those facing the greatest hardships and repeated flood events. The framework should be designed to deliver fairer and more inclusive outcomes, by:...
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terms: resilience
Committee recommendation
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#14 - Expand UK research on Antarctic glaciers and ice sheets for sea level rise projections.
The accelerated melting of Antarctic ice is becoming one of the most significant drivers of global sea level rise, which poses an increasing threat to coastal communities worldwide, including in the UK. To enhance the accuracy of sea level rise projections and develop more effective climate adaptation and risk management strategies, it is imperative for the UK to...
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terms: climate, vulnerable
PFD report
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Michael Joseph Hirrell
Npower representatives did not recognise the deceased as a vulnerable person despite visible signs; personnel felt unable to halt disconnection; and Ofgem was not informed of the death until the coroner's office notified them.
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terms: vulnerable
Committee recommendation
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#17 - Lead review of humanitarian and climate policies for stronger disability inclusion commitments.
Led by its Gender & Equalities Department and Disability Inclusion Team, the FCDO should lead Government efforts to review all humanitarian response and climate change adaption policies, ensuring that each includes stronger commitments on ensuring that disability inclusion is properly considered and funded. (Paragraph 84) FCDO and disability-inclusive development 31
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terms: climate
Committee recommendation
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#18 - Integrate Antarctic research and preservation into broader international climate strategies.
To safeguard Antarctica’s environment, it is crucial to integrate Antarctic research and preservation into broader international climate strategies. Rising sea levels, driven by climate change in Antarctica, pose an existential risk to the UK, making it imperative to act now to protect both the Antarctic ecosystem and the UK’s coastlines. (Conclusion, Paragraph 107)
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terms: climate
Committee recommendation
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#15 - Trial the naming of heatwaves for 2024 to enhance public recognition of severe events.
The naming of heatwaves could assist in helping the public to recognise such extreme weather events as a threat to health and wellbeing in the same way as named storms. We recommend that the Met Office trial the naming of heatwaves for 2024 with a view to making this permanent if the trial is deemed successful. (Paragraph 78)...
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Committee recommendation
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#3 - Nature-based solutions are crucial for cooling, but the green infrastructure framework lacks wide implementation.
Nature-based solutions to climate change, such as parks, trees, water bodies and green infrastructure, have significant cooling effects as well as multiple co-benefits (for example, for health, wellbeing, air quality, flood resilience and biodiversity). Increasing the amount of green space is one of the most important tools in tackling the impacts of heat, especially in urban areas. Natural...
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terms: climate, resilience
Committee recommendation
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#14 - Launch a Minister-led public information campaign on heatwave threats and human health impacts.
While sources of accurate, reliable and helpful guidance on dealing with extreme heat do exist, this information does not appear always to be reaching everyone who needs it, leading to avoidable health harms. We raised this issue in our 2018 Heatwaves report but little progress appears to have been made. We reiterate the recommendation from our predecessor committee’s...
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terms: group, vulnerable
Committee recommendation
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#8 - Disabled people's needs must be incorporated into all Zero Hunger programming.
Disabled people are particularly vulnerable to hunger and their needs must be incorporated into all Zero Hunger focussed programming. The Government have made important steps in this direction. (Conclusion, Paragraph 31)
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terms: vulnerable
Committee recommendation
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#38 - Begin work on Flood Re successor to ensure continued, affordable flood insurance beyond 2039.
The Government should begin work with the insurance and mortgage sectors to ensure the continued availability and affordability of flood insurance beyond 2039, when the current Flood Re scheme is due to end. This should include options for a successor scheme (“Flood Re 2.0”) that recognises resilience measures, supports low-income households, and enables a fair transition to a...
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terms: resilience
Committee recommendation
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#22 - New flood investment framework risks perpetuating shortcomings without social vulnerability considerations.
We welcome the Government’s consultation on a new investment framework for flood and coastal resilience. The proposed shift to a simpler, more strategic approach is a positive step. However, unless the revised framework explicitly considers social vulnerability and the long-term community impacts of flooding, it risks perpetuating current shortcomings. Without such reform, funding may continue to prioritise projects...
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terms: resilience
Committee recommendation
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#22 - Government must maintain flexibility within ODA priorities to respond to interconnected development challenges.
The Government’s focusses on global health, and climate and nature are welcome. However, the Government must maintain the flexibility within these priorities to accommodate the interconnectedness of development challenges. It also needs the flexibility to be able to respond to needs expressed by its bilateral partners in governments and civil society. This is particularly important in fragile and...
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terms: climate
Committee recommendation
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#15 - Publish five-yearly climate report for British Antarctic Territory and South Atlantic territories.
The British Antarctic Territory and South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands are among the UK Overseas Territories most exposed to climate change. Yet regular, integrated reporting of their environmental status is lacking. We recommend that the British Antarctic Survey publish a five- yearly climate report for the British Antarctic Territory and associated South Atlantic territories, covering glaciology,...
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terms: climate
Committee recommendation
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#16 - Limiting global warming to 1.5°C critical for preventing Antarctic ice sheet destabilisation.
Evidence presented during the course of this inquiry highlights the critical importance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Achieving this target is essential for preventing further destabilisation of Antarctica’s ice sheets and glaciers, which are already experiencing significant changes due to rising temperatures. Maintaining this limit is key to safeguarding the integrity of the Antarctic environment and mitigating...
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terms: climate
Committee recommendation
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#16 - Disability-inclusive programming is insufficiently mandated across FCDO crisis response policy documents.
Despite the increasing importance of climate change adaption, as well as the constant threat of conflict, disability-inclusive programming is not sufficiently mandated across FCDO policy documents, risking persons with disabilities being overlooked at times of crisis. (Paragraph 83) 30 FCDO and disability-inclusive development
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Committee recommendation
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#17 - Integrate Antarctic scientific and environmental significance into international climate and nature negotiations.
These environmental changes are accelerating and have global consequences for climate stability and biodiversity. While the Antarctic Treaty System provides important protections, it cannot address climate change and biodiversity loss in isolation. Antarctica’s scientific and environmental significance must be better integrated into international climate and nature negotiations. The UK has a key role in ensuring that Antarctic issues,...
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terms: climate
Committee recommendation
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#2 - Fifth Report - Local government and the path to net zero
Local authorities will be particularly important in ensuring a just transition to net zero, since no layer of government is closer to people or better able to tailor climate action to meet the needs of local communities. Only by harnessing local government can central government deliver a just transition that benefits all communities. Without that just transition, the...
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Committee recommendation
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#25 - Potential of local knowledge for nutrition and food security solutions remains unrealised.
The potential of local knowledge and understanding in developing solutions to nutrition and food security challenges, particularly in terms of climate adaption and mitigation, is not always fully realised. (Conclusion, Paragraph 75)
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Committee recommendation
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#10 - Establish a comprehensive national retrofit programme to adapt UK housing stock for net zero and comfort.
We therefore recommend that the Government establish a comprehensive national retrofit programme to adapt the UK’s housing stock for both net zero and thermal comfort. The programme should include the following elements to maximise its impact and minimise costs: • Local delivery via local authorities, underpinned by adequate long-term funding; • Prioritisation of vulnerable households; • A fabric-first...
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Committee recommendation
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#23 - Consider interconnected challenges in fragile states when deploying ODA financial and human resources holistically.
We urge the Government to consider the nature of interconnected challenges such as nutrition, food systems, education, Water Sanitation and Hygiene, and governance challenges—particularly in relation to fragile and conflict-affected states—as it plans how it will deploy its financial and human resources in a holistic way over this spending period. (Recommendation, Paragraph 44) 17
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Committee recommendation
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#1 - Extreme heat has serious, widespread impacts on UK health, wellbeing, and economic productivity.
We have received compelling evidence that heat is having serious and widespread impacts on health, wellbeing and economic productivity. This is already costing the UK thousands of lives and billions of pounds annually, a situation which is set to get worse without concerted action. The social and economic case for accelerating heat adaptation measures in the UK is...
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Committee recommendation
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#19 - Fourth Report - Energy Efficiency of Existing Homes
The proposed extension to the Warm Home Discount provides no apparent incentive to poor or vulnerable customers to invest in improving the energy efficiency of their homes. Energy efficiency is the most sustainable long-term solution to fuel poverty. The money earmarked for additional years of the scheme could be better applied to support energy efficiency objectives more directly,...
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terms: vulnerable
Committee recommendation
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#11 - Respond to consultation and rapidly introduce proposals for low-cost home energy improvement finance.
We urge the Government to respond as soon as possible to its consultation on improving home energy performance through lenders which closed in February 2021. Ministers must rapidly bring forward proposals to encourage access to low-cost finance for householders to invest in home improvements which can increase energy efficiency and heat resilience.
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terms: resilience
Committee recommendation
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#8 - Require energy companies to provide priority phonelines for intermediaries supporting vulnerable clients.
We recommend that energy companies be required to provide, on request, a priority phoneline for trusted intermediaries, charities and consumer organisations to access support for their clients over the winter months. This should be implemented ahead of this winter.
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terms: vulnerable
Committee recommendation
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#1 - Third Report - From Srebrenica to a safer tomorrow: Preventing future mass atrocities around the world
Mass atrocities not only reflect deep inhumanity but undermine global stability at a time when population displacement is more pronounced than at any point since World War Two. Key trends today may fuel greater violence, for instance climate change, threats to democracies and the involvement of non-state actors in conflict. The Prime Minister has expressed her personal commitment...
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terms: climate
Committee recommendation
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#13 - Set out targets for growth in competent retrofit installer supply chain or establish ambitious new ones.
We urge the Government to set out, in its response to this report, the targets (if any) which Ministers have set for growth in the supply chain of competent retrofit installers, and the progress made against these targets to date. If no targets have yet been set, we recommend that Ministers seek to set ambitious targets for supply...
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NAO recommendation
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Gambling regulation: problem gambling and protecting vulnerable people
The Commission should: a) build on its high-level definition of vulnerability to articulate clearly how it interprets which consumers may be vulnerable under what circumstances, and how its work is intended to address this. To achieve this, it could work with and learn from the experiences of other regulators that have articulated their interpretations of vulnerable consumers including,...
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Committee recommendation
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#9 - Significant opportunities exist to create a comprehensive housing retrofit programme addressing overheating risks.
We consider that there are further opportunities to combine existing initiatives on insulation and energy efficiency into a more ambitious and comprehensive housing retrofit programme which addresses the risks of overheating in existing properties. Such an approach, if well designed and delivered, can minimise both cost and disruption while ensuring homes are energy efficient and remain comfortable to...
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Committee recommendation
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#2 - Incorporate explicit humidity level messaging into Met Office and UKHSA weather forecasts and heat alerts.
We recommend that the Met Office and UKHSA incorporate explicit messaging and/ or metrics regarding the effects of humidity levels as well as temperature into weather forecasts and heat-health alerts. (Paragraph 20) The urban heat island effect and nature-based solutions
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Committee recommendation
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#6 - Clarify Government intention to expand Building Regulations Part O to cover property refurbishments.
We support the extension of Part O of the Building Regulations not only to cover material changes of use to residential, but also for refurbishments of existing properties. We recommend that the Government clarify whether it is intended that Part O of the Building Regulations be expanded to refurbishments. If that is indeed the case, we recommend that...
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Committee recommendation
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#15 - Amend DIRS delivery plan to ensure consultation with Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs).
The next iteration of the DIRS delivery plan should be amended to ensure that Organisations of Persons with Disabilities are consulted on any policies that may affect them. (Paragraph 68) Humanitarian response and climate change
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LGO / SPSO decision
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21-017-612 - London Borough of Southwark
Summary: Mr X complains about the Council’s handling of his concerns following receipt of a Moving Traffic Penalty Notice. The Enforcement Agent acting on behalf of the Council was at fault for not following guidance when Mr X told it he was vulnerable due to a disability. The Agent was also at fault for failing to properly consider...
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