Question follow-through · 30586
Mingyang Smart Energy: Wind Power
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what security assessment his Department has conducted on the potential risks associated with Mingyang Smart Energy supplying turbines for the Green Volt North Sea wind farm.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 11 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 3 Mar 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
11 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what security assessment his Department has conducted on the potential risks associated with Mingyang Smart Energy supplying turbines for the Green Volt North Sea wind farm.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2025
Answer published
Defence works in close collaboration with other Departments as part of the Government’s process to assess and mitigate national security risks to UK interests at home and abroad. It would be inappropriate to comment on individual cases, but any investment...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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