The CIOB understands and agrees with a requirement to reduce the Feed-in Tariff for solar PV given the inherent spending implications and unanticipated consumer demand. However, the cut of over 50% in the tariff levels for small-scale PV was worse than anticipated, even with the industry expectation that a cut was necessary simply because of the continuing fall in the price paid for PV panels.  The added issue to this is the bringing forward of the point at which the new tariff levels will apply, which will have a devastating impact on hundreds of businesses and thousands of individuals taking forward their solar PV plans on the expectation of the old tariff levels and previous cut-off point.