Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 97809

Solar Power

Tabled: 8 December 2025
Answered: 16 December 2025

Question

Helen Whately

ConservativeFaversham and Mid Kent

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of community benefit levels provided by NSIP-scale solar developers (a) relative to the profits generated and (b) in comparison with no

Answer

Michael Shanks
We believe that, where communities do the country a service by hosting clean energy infrastructure, they should benefit from it directly. No formal analysis has been carried out to compare the community benefit funds of proposed NSIP projects with those o...

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