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The premise of our televised online debate between the Energy Minister Greg Barker, Grand Designs front man Kevin McCloud and several leading industry representatives was "The Green Deal: One Year and counting".

Next week, on 9 November at 2.30pm, Kevin McCloud and Paul King (UK-GBC chief executive), will be joined by Greg Barker – Minister of State for energy and climate change – for  a live “webinar” in which they will be dissecting the Green Deal at your dictat.

Just before today's Report Stage of the Energy Bill, it is a good time to look at where we are in the progress towards the Green Deal launching in the Autumn of next year.

The Energy Bill has been delayed. Ministers will now have the opportunity to correct the inadequacies with the Green Deal that will cause the UK to fail to meet its emissions targets under the Climate Change Act.

I spent Friday at the Radian Retrofit Conference. A fantastic event, absolutely jammed to the rafters with well over 350 people all focused on retrofit. Various experts spoke, Chris Huhne laid out his vision for the Green Deal and we all swapped ideas and concerns. However, at the end of the day, I was left with one, big nagging worry.

With the Third Reading of the Energy Bill complete in the Lords the Energy Bill has passed to the Commons.

It’s that time of year again.  Speculation builds on what is going to happen to our taxes, what will happen to fuel duty and then on Budget Day the Government claims the Budget will help the environment.