Question follow-through · 43322
Housing: Energy Performance Certificates
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that purchasers are not financially disadvantaged by incorrect EPC certificates.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 1 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that purchasers are not financially disadvantaged by incorrect EPC certificates.
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Energy Performance of Buildings Regulations 2012 place a duty on accreditation schemes to ensure that Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) are produced in a consistent and accurate manner and the energy assessors are suitably qualified and experienc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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