Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 54977
Agriculture: Land
Tabled: 30 May 2025
Answered: 11 June 2025
Question
Pippa Heylings
Liberal Democrat — South Cambridgeshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of large-scale solar Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects on (a) long-term food production capacity and (b) the natural en
Answer
Mary CreaghDefra does not collect information on the potential impacts of constructing green energy infrastructure. However, Defra does produce statistical estimates of agricultural land areas each year from the annual June Survey of Agriculture: In 2024, the utilis...
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