Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 118974

Energy: Infrastructure

Tabled: 9 March 2026
Answered: 17 March 2026

Question

Pippa Heylings

Liberal DemocratSouth Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what his proposed timeline is for the introduction of community benefits applied to energy infrastructure.

Answer

Michael Shanks
In the Clean Power Action Plan, we made it clear that where communities host clean energy infrastructure, they should feel tangible and enduring benefit of doing so. The Government has already announced bill discounts for communities living nearest to new...

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