Agriculture: Land
Commons · Question 54977 · Tabled 30 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 11 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Pippa Heylings
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of large-scale solar Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects on (a) long-term food production capacity and (b) the natural en
Answer
Answered by Mary Creagh, 11 Jun 2025
Defra does not collect information on the potential impacts of constructing green energy infrastructure. However, Defra does produce statistical estimates of agricultural land areas each year from the annual June Survey of Agriculture: In 2024, the utilis...