Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 116441
Electricity: Infrastructure
Tabled: 27 February 2026
Answered: 9 March 2026
Question
Andrew George
Liberal Democrat — St Ives
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if his Department will commit to developing new statutory mechanisms which provide electricity network operators with outcome-certain, timely, and cost-effective land access, while maintainin
Answer
Michael ShanksDESNZ has worked closely with stakeholders to understand the extent to which current land access, rights and consents processes delay and add costs to rollout of electricity network infrastructure required for delivering clean power by 2030 and accelerati...
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