Question follow-through · 73973
Energy: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to provide support for communities that host (a) battery storage facilities and (b) other energy infrastructure.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 1 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 9 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
1 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to provide support for communities that host (a) battery storage facilities and (b) other energy infrastructure.
3 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Government believes that communities are providing a service to the country when they host clean energy infrastructure, so there needs to be benefit for them. On 21 May, the Government published a working paper on community benefits and shared ownersh...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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