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How much of this best and most versatile land is there? The Library tells me that grades 1, 2, and 3A—the best grades—comprise 42% of the cultivated land in Great Britain. By difference, therefore, a substantial majority, 58% of the agricultural land, is in the poorer grades 3B, 4 and 5. This would still be available for larger-scale solar under my proposal, and 58% is still plenty to go at—it is more than 12 Norfolks, or two and a half Waleses. So, to repeat: my amendment is not a ban on solar, but it would focus it on the less productive land, of which there is plenty.