Treasury wants public sector to focus on energy efficiency of new buildings

By David Blackman2018-10-10T06:01:00

Minister says new hospitals and schools can save taxpayers money if new builds are more efficient

Improving the energy efficiency of the public sector estate will be part of the Treasury’s upcoming pan-Whitehall spending review, one of the department’s junior ministers has signalled.

At a fringe meeting at the Conservative party conference last week, exchequer secretary Robert Jenrick identified greater energy efficiency as key to achieving better value for taxpayers’ money when the Treasury conducts its next review of government spending next year.

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