Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of complaints submitted to the Financial Ombudsman on (a) the length of and (b) buy-out clauses in leases for solar panels on residential properties in the latest year for which data is available.

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is operationally independent from the Government. The FOS is responsible for collecting and publishing data about its service and is therefore better placed to respond to this question.

This question has been passed to the FOS who will respond to the honourable member by letter.