Whilst welcoming the Govt's "ambition" to improve the UK's long term energy security the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health says it is dismayed much needed energy efficiency measures have been excluded from the strategy in the context of spiralling living costs.

The govt has so far provided only a "small" amount of additional funding for heat pumps and it "may" reform the regulations on installing solar panels on homes and businesses to increase solar capacity by 2035. However the new strategy is only short term in light of dire warnings in the latest international climate change report released this week.

The Institute said "the Treasury has questions to answer about why these [home energy efficiency] measures are not being funded.