Question follow-through · 1352

Batteries: Storage

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what consideration her Department has given to including Battery Energy Storage Sites within the Environmental Permitting Regulations.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled: 14 May 2026
Target answer date: 18 May 2026
Answer: 19 May 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

14 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what consideration her Department has given to including Battery Energy Storage Sites within the Environmental Permitting Regulations.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 2026
Answer published
We are committed to including Battery Energy Storage Solutions as an activity in the Environmental Permitting Regulations, subject to final policy review.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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