Large Solar Farms

I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this incredibly important debate and on his excelle...

I thank the hon. Member for her input. I agree that it is extremely important that we move on and...

There is another point, too. Recent events in particular have shown us that we need more security...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his comments. The threat to agricultural land is the crux of the...

I am sorry to intervene on my hon. Friend again—I know that time is pressing. None the less, he m...

I thank my right hon. Friend again. That is certainly an issue in our green and pleasant land. Th...

Ynys Môn is known as energy island, as we have wind, wave, tidal, hydrogen, solar and, I hope, nu...

I thank my hon. Friend for raising one of the key points. Solar is important as part of our mix, ...

Order. I call Ian Paisley—four minutes.

2.46 pm

Thank you very much, Sir Charles. It is an honour to follow my hon. Friend from across the House,...

The Sunnica scheme is largely in my West Suffolk constituency, as well as in east Cambridgeshire;...

I think that the right hon. Member has just put his finger on a very important point. That was fl...

Order. The hon. Gentleman went more than 30 seconds over. I tolerated it from him because of the ...

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bassetlaw (Brendan Clarke-Smith) for allowing me to co-spon...

It is important that we are aware where companies operate in this country that use absolutely una...

It is an honour to take part in this debate introduced by my constituency neighbour, my hon. Frie...

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate, Mr Walker. I thank the hon. Member for Bassetlaw (Brend...

I stand as an avowedly pro-solar politician. Indeed, I was the Energy Minister. I am very proud t...

I want to talk about the proposal to build a 77-acre solar farm off Dolly Lane, near the villages...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Bassetlaw (Brendan Clarke-Smith) on calling this deb...

It is a great pleasure to speak in this debate. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bassetlaw (...

I am grateful for your indulgence, Sir Charles, and I will speak briefly as a former energy Minis...

Last but not at all least, Greg Smith.

3.27 pm

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Charles. Like other Members who have spoke...

It would be remiss of me not to start by congratulating the hon. Member for Bassetlaw (Brendan Cl...

I thank the SNP spokesperson for finishing in four and a half minutes, not five. My gosh, he has ...

I will attempt to follow the hon. Member for Aberdeen South (Stephen Flynn) in being as brief as ...

I agree with everybody that not engaging with communities is simply not on, and it is important t...

The hon. Member is quite right. Any form of renewable power—indeed, any form of power—ought to be...

The hon. Gentleman and I have been debating these issues for longer than either of us care to rem...

The right hon. Member is absolutely right that we need to test these things and take the environm...

In the case of the Sunnica proposal, the battery farm is much bigger than the power that would co...

Yes, the right hon. Member is absolutely right. The public should be on board with any developmen...

Minister, could you sit down at 3.58 pm, so that our mover can wind up after you have wound up?