The Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change (Gregory Barker)

I would like to inform the House that a written answer I gave on 6 September 2010, Official Report , column 139W to my hon. Friend the Member for West Suffolk (Matthew Hancock) contained some inadvertent and minor errors in that VAT had not been applied consistently, the effect of which was to overstate the cost of the chairs. In fact several of the most expensive chairs were purchased for slightly less than the previous answer indicated. The hon. Member’s question tabled on 27 July 2010 asked how many chairs the Department of Energy and Climate Change had purchased since its creation; how much the Department spent in each such year; and what the five most expensive chairs purchased in each such year were.

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