Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 115042
Batteries: Storage
Tabled: 23 February 2026
Answered: 27 February 2026
Question
Helen Whately
Conservative — Faversham and Mid Kent
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will hold discussions with the Electrical Storage Health and Safety Governance Group on introducing BESS to the Environmental Permitting Regulations.
Answer
Dame Angela EagleDefra officials have regularly attended Electrical Storage Health and Safety Governance Group meetings, where the proposal of potentially including battery energy storage system (BESS) sites into the Environmental Permitting Regulations has previously bee...
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