Onshore Wind Farms - 28th November 2023

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Onshore Wind Farms.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2023-11-28/debates/7A2E880F-EE2B-4869-BB8C-66E8765D7DC6/OnshoreWindFarms

11:54 Graham Stuart (Conservative)

My hon. Friend has championed, does champion and, I am sure, will continue for many years to champion the good people of Kettering, and the fact that they are providing such leadership on net zero and the delivery of renewables after our parlous inheritance from the Labour party. Let us make sure that we never go back to a system in which renewables are not brought on to our grid in the way they are today.

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11:55 Dr Alan Whitehead (Southampton, Test) (Lab)

I recently visited the site in Leighton Buzzard of the only turbine that has been put in place onshore in England since those supposed restrictions were lifted. It turns out that it has been in the planning process since 2014, and is not on a new site anyway. The Department’s renewable energy planning database shows that there are precisely zero new schemes in the pipeline in England. Should the Minister not go away and reconsider the remaining planning and funding restrictions on onshore wind so that it really can get going again?

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