"The only way to get major investment in residential buildings is to have much more dramatic incentives," Yeo said.
"By localising the retention of business rates you are given a dramatic new incentive to work with business and with others, in order to boost economic prosperity in your areas".
Better information has been shown to save households up to 22% of monthly consumption, though the change is often less dramatic if behaviour incentives aren't in place.
Nine months ago virtually none of the counties passed, but this month the health minister revealed that nearly all had cut their queues to three months or less.Anders Knape, the head of the organisation representing county governments, ascribes this to "a dramatic change in incentives".
His speech to the King's Fund last week made plain his game: having decided that the Labour's 2004 GP contract is the source of problems ranging from poor care of older people to A&E pressures, he is going to rewrite it by next April, sweeping away bureaucracy and securing a "dramatic simplification" of targets and incentives.
Rather than the government seeking to pick a single winning technology or oil alternative or relying on an energy-based public jobs initiative, we need a broad and dramatic commitment to energy innovation, incentives for energy efficiency, and climate-change targets that could unleash new export opportunities and millions of new private-sector jobs.
And advanced economies committed to providing large-scale economic incentives to help make dramatic progress possible.
Nevertheless, some politicians believe that the right combination of incentives and punishments will produce dramatic improvement.
He has also unveiled an ambitious and fairly detailed menu of subsidies and market incentives aimed at helping industry achieve dramatic reductions in greenhouse gases.
"If you pay people for a story, you create an incentive for them to make it more dramatic than the facts might bear out," he said.
