Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 73085
Agriculture: Land Use
Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 8 September 2025
Question
Sarah Bool
Conservative — South Northamptonshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2025 to Question 56079 on Agriculture: Land Use, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of the statistic that 50% of land with solar panels on is
Answer
Mary CreaghThe statistics are estimates from the annual Defra June Survey of Agriculture and Horticulture, a representative large scale sample survey of Defra registered farms* from across the country. Indications of accuracy in the estimates of the area of land wit...
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