| Heading: |
Solar Power: Agriculture |
| Question ID: |
1793547 |
| UIN: |
45105 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-08 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4742 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Stuart Anderson
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| Asking Member handle: |
_AndersonStuart
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@_AndersonStuart
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will take steps to prevent solar panels from being placed on agricultural land. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-28 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4998 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Michael Shanks
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| Answering Member handle: |
mgshanks
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@mgshanks
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| Answer text: |
Planning guidance makes clear that, wherever possible, solar developers should utilise brownfield, industrial, contaminated, or previously developed sites. Where the development of agricultural land is shown to be necessary, lower-quality land should be p... |
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| Answering body ID: |
215 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero |
| Tweeted: |
true |