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Agriculture: Land Use

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2025 to Question 56079 on Agriculture: Land Use, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that planning decisions on solar farms are informed by

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
10 Jul 2025
Target answer date
14 Jul 2025
Answer
18 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 10 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2025 to Question 56079 on Agriculture: Land Use, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that planning decisions on solar farms are informed by

  2. 14 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    This Government places great importance upon our agricultural land and food production and has committed to empower Protected Landscapes to become greener, wilder and more accessible. There are established routes in the planning system to consider the imp...

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