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Oral Answers to Questions

Rehman Chishti Excerpts
Thursday 11th November 2010

(13 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Charles Hendry Portrait Charles Hendry
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As I have said, the spending review settlement allocated £1 billion to project 1. We will then take forward three further projects, and we have now announced that that could be open to gas as well. We are looking at three further projects because we believe Britain should be leading the world in this technology, and we are absolutely determined that it will.

Rehman Chishti Portrait Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham) (Con)
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The generation tariff payment is not the consideration of any supplier and is therefore outside the scope of VAT. If a commercial company wishes to assign its income to a third party in exchange for the supply and installation of solar panels, will the funder of the panels be able to claim back the input VAT?

Lord Barker of Battle Portrait Gregory Barker
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I apologise to my hon. Friend for not quite catching all of his question, but I think it relates to solar panels and VAT. I should be very happy to look at the issue, and if he writes to me, I will examine it in detail.