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Home Cooling Bill
Home Cooling Bill has completed 1st reading on 15 Jul 2026 in the House of Commons. Parliament currently lists 2nd reading as its current stage.
Current position
- Latest completed stage
- 1st reading15 Jul 2026
- Current stage
- 2nd reading
- House
- House of Commons
- Bill type
- Private Members' Bill (Presentation Bill)
- Last updated
- 14 Sep 2026
- Proposer / sponsor
- Freddie van Mierlo Proposer / sponsor · Liberal Democrat · House of Commons
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The Home Cooling Bill (a Private Members’ Presentation Bill) would focus on home cooling measures by changing how VAT applies to some of those measures and by requiring the Secretary of State to report to Parliament on the potential case for providing funding to local authorities in England. The aim, as set out in the bill’s long title, is to enable local authorities to make grants for home cooling measures, with further connected provisions.
What it would do
- Provide for zero-rating of VAT for certain home cooling measures.
- Require the Secretary of State to report to Parliament on the potential merits of funding local authorities in England.
- Enable (via local authority grants, as described in the long title) funding to support home cooling measures.
- Include connected purposes related to the above aims.
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1st reading 15 Jul 2026 · House of Commons
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