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UK’s leading energy companies ‘have no interest in real energy efficiency’, says Tory MP Greg Barker

The big six energy companies undermined the government's flagship programme to upgrade the energy efficiency of Britain's housing stock, according to the former climate minister who is now David Cameron's...

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