Large-scale Solar Farms - 18th November 2025

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Large-scale Solar Farms.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-11-18/debates/7A6BBC9F-CB01-47D6-A700-21F47A4FA41C/LargescaleSolarFarms

12:10 Greg Smith (Conservative)

I agree with the Minister that rooftops are the place to put solar. Indeed, as my right hon. Friend the Member for East Surrey (Claire Coutinho) made clear when she was Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, agricultural land should be protected from ground-mounted solar installations. The campaign group Stop Oversized Solar has found that operational sites and solar facilities in the planning pipeline alone are set to replace an area of farmland bigger than Merseyside, and that overall up to 5% of UK cropland is at risk from solar, so why do the Government persist with their claim that land take will be 1%? When Labour said that food security is national security, did the energy team not get the memo?

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