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Ministers trying to hide solar job losses - Flint
26 January 2012
Caroline Flint MP, Labour's Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary, has accused ministers of trying to hide job losses in the solar industry, after obtaining Government estimates showing that the cuts to the Feed-in Tariff could cause tens of thousands of job losses – even though ministers originally claimed the plans could create 10,000 jobs.
Caroline Flint, said:
"When growth is flat-lining and unemployment is rising, solar is one industry that is actually growing and creating jobs. For months, Labour has been warning that the Government’s chaotic cuts to solar power would cause thousands of job losses – which ministers denied.
"Ministers must urgently explain why they claimed their plans would create jobs, when they’ve known all along that the cuts to solar power would put thousands of people out of work and cause hundreds of businesses to go to the wall."
