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Neil Parish Excerpts
Thursday 26th January 2012

(12 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Charles Hendry Portrait Charles Hendry
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As I said earlier, it is important that we understand why people are disconnected. If there is not enough clarity about why people are self-disconnecting, we will ask for more details on why that is happening.

Neil Parish Portrait Neil Parish (Tiverton and Honiton) (Con)
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Mid Devon district council, which is based in Tiverton, was planning just before the tariff rate was cut to have 1,800 social homes with solar panels. Will Ministers be prepared to meet officials from the council to discuss a way forward?

Lord Barker of Battle Portrait Gregory Barker
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I would be delighted to meet my hon. Friend to discuss the matter. Obviously we want to build a consensus on the way forward. I will publish plans for the reform of the feed-in tariff so that we can put it on a much sounder footing and learn from the mistakes of the system we inherited.