The Government is to beef up legislation forcing landlords to pay a fine if the rent properties without proper insulation.
By the autumn of 2012, the government says the scheme will enable homeowners to make their house of flat energy-efficient with no immediate payments.
Companies would install loft and cavity wall insulation draught proof doors and windows and the homeowner would pay the firm back through their energy bills over up to 20 years. The aim would be for the homeowner to barely notice the repayments due to the lower energy bills.
Ministers believe that about 14m of Britons 27m homes, offices and buildings could be fitted with energy-saving measure in the next 10 years and that jobs in the energy efficiency refurbishment sector could rise from its current 27,000 to 100,000.
