Social Landlords

Mr. Cousins
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many responses he has received to his consultation paper, "Restriction of VAT Grouping to Fully Taxable Corporate Bodies", from registered social landlords; and  what estimate he has made of additional costs for (a) registered social landlords and (b) Government-funded housing programmes and housing benefit expenditure if the proposals are implemented in their present form. [76126]

Ms Hewitt
The Chancellor made clear in his Budget statement on 9 March that the proposal to restrict the VAT grouping facility to fully taxable companies would not be implemented.