Question follow-through · 47094
Schools: Solar Power
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of permitting pay-as-you-save soft loans from community energy enterprises into solar panels on schools.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 22 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of permitting pay-as-you-save soft loans from community energy enterprises into solar panels on schools.
28 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2025
Answer published
This government continues to look for opportunities to support schools in the growth of renewables in order to reduce emissions and energy bills. Options like Great British Energy’s scheme, which will provide funding to put rooftop solar panels on around ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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