Written Question·Treasury·UIN 182600
Housing: Solar Power
Tabled: 25 April 2023
Answered: 2 May 2023
Question
Ruth Cadbury
Labour — Brentford and Isleworth
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.
Answer
Andrew GriffithThe 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.