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Lord Whitehead (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 23 March 2026

Debate

Onshore Wind Farms

Contribution

Well indeed. The first thing, literally, that the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero did upon the Labour Government taking office was to remove the ban on onshore wind and make sure that it could in future play a full part in the development of UK wind, as we have begun to see in the allocation rounds. It is a crying shame that onshore was effectively banned for such a long time and is only now recovering.

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