Question follow-through · 118684
Data Centres: Foreign Investment in UK
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that inward investment agreements for new datacentres include binding requirements on energy efficiency, renewable power sourcing and heat-
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 9 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 19 Mar 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that inward investment agreements for new datacentres include binding requirements on energy efficiency, renewable power sourcing and heat-
11 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Mar 2026
Answer published
The government is committed to ensuring that new data centres and AI infrastructure are developed responsibly, with due consideration of environmental impacts.UK data and AI infrastructure is subject to the UK’s environmental and planning frameworks, whic...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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