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VAT (Housing)

Mr. Curry: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what would be the impact on tax revenue in a full year of levying a 5 per cent. rate of VAT both on house refurbishment and repair and on construction on previously undeveloped land. [105145]

Dawn Primarolo: The full year cost in 2000-01 of levying a 5 per cent. rate of VAT on both house refurbishment and repair and on construction on previously undeveloped land would be approximately £670 million, assuming no consequential change in pre-tax prices.

Consultation

Mr. Fraser: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what bodies his Department has consulted on each of its programmes since May 1997. [105243]

Miss Melanie Johnson: The Chancellor's departments consult widely on proposals across the diverse range of policies for which they are responsible. There is no central record of consultees, and one could be assembled only at disproportionate expense.

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