Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 121490
Food Supply
Tabled: 17 March 2026
Answered: 25 March 2026
Question
Shivani Raja
Conservative — Leicester East
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of converting productive agricultural land to solar farms on food security.
Answer
Dame Angela EagleThe Government does not believe that the accelerated roll-out of solar generation poses a threat to food security. The total area used by solar farms is very small. Even in the most ambitious scenarios, we only expect up to 0.4% of total UK land to be occ...
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