The company has warned that low levels of housebuilding and delays to the government's Green Deal have reduced demand for insulation.

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But in the detailed Committee Stage consideration last week, Luciana Berger (a Co-operative MP and Labour frontbencher) put down a series of amendments designed to help cooperatives and mutual societies offering insulation and other improvements to become players in the market, including reduced registration fees for non-profit organisations.

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