| Heading: |
Solar Power: Industrial Estates and Retail Trade |
| Question ID: |
1788989 |
| UIN: |
41701 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-26 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5219 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mike Martin
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Mike Martin
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of mandating businesses occupying spaces in (a) retail and (b) industrial estates to install solar panels on their roofs. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-02 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4998 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Michael Shanks
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| Answering Member handle: |
mgshanks
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@mgshanks
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
The Government provides fiscal incentives to encourage businesses to install rooftop solar, such as through tax relief and business rate exemptions. Through permitted development rights, there is no limit to the capacity of a commercial solar installation... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
215 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero |
| Tweeted: |
true |