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Agriculture: Land Use

Asked by Sarah BoolConservativeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 19 September 2025UIN 73087

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 proportion of the 50% of land with solar panels that is still being used for agricultural production is being used for livestock grazing.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

The statistics are based on results from the annual Defra June Survey of Agriculture and Horticulture. The specific survey category was “Area of solar panels on land also used for grazing or agricultural production” but no breakdowns of the type of production were collected and are therefore not available.

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