The Energy Bill received its Second Reading on 10
May 2011 and included some significant changes to the Green
Deal. These related to the introduction of new regulations
that will, from April 2016, allow tenants of domestic properties to
request their landlords to carry out energy efficiency improvements
and landlords be required to comply with reasonable requests
coupled with a ban, starting in April 2018, on letting domestic and
business premises with an "F" or "G" energy
efficiency rating.
This was followed, on 17 May, by a Ministerial
announcement that the Government will be signing up to a Fourth
Carbon Budget. The Fourth Carbon Budget will propose setting a
legally binding interim target to reduce emissions by 50% by 2027
from 1990 level and the Green Deal is noted specifically as a
policy that will be a part of achieving these targets. On 23
May the Deputy Prime-Minister confirmed that the Green Investment
Bank will be set up under legislation to give it
