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Agriculture: Land Use

Asked by Sarah BoolConservativeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 5 September 2025UIN 73086

The question

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 the geographic distribution of the land with solar panels on that is used for agricultural production is.

Answered by Mary Creagh

The statistics are based on results from the annual Defra June Survey of Agriculture and Horticulture. This survey covers England but no lower geographic breakdowns are available. The number of responses to the question was too small to give accurate estimates at any lower level than England only.

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