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Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 22 April 2026

Debate

Clean Power 2030 Action Plan: Rural Communities

Contribution

I am not accusing the Minister in any way of misleading the House, because this is from a different department, but the actual figure that was consulted on by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in January 2025 was that more than 10% of farmland in England was to be diverted towards helping to achieve net zero and protecting wildlife by 2050. That was in the consultation that was the prelude to the land use framework and I understand was in parallel to this net zero policy.

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