Fiona Harvey

People have got to be taught, in a sense, how to use their own homes.

Well, if the government were to say that, you know, people can't be expected to work in temperatures above a certain level...

then that would mean that employers would have to ensure that all of their buildings were capable of being cooled to that kind of level.

Workplaces have not taken this seriously because they haven't been regulated to do so.

I think the pressure is coming from unions at the moment and from workers themselves.

And I think we will see that pressure increasing because, you know, more and more this will impact on productivity.

Workplace efficiency.

Yeah.

When it starts affecting the bottom line, companies will pay attention.

The report notes that there are a lot of people in vulnerable situations who are particularly at risk and are not being looked after.

And so the report demands that within 10 years we should have air conditioning in all hospitals and care homes because old people are really very much at risk here.

And what about children and young people?

They were also mentioned, right?

Children and young people, we will need to have air conditioning in schools as well.

The committee has given the government a bit longer to do that.

We will need to have air conditioning in schools by 2050.

But that's quite a big thing to do.

I mean, refurbishing the UK schools is going to be a big operation, really.

But the school year as it's currently constituted is based on farming from centuries ago.

That's where our school year came from.