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Question for Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

UIN 384, tabled on 17 July 2024

Question

Alicia Kearns
Conservative
Rutland and Stamford
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to paragraph 3.9.92 of the report by the Planning Inspectorate entitled Mallard Pass Solar Farm: Examining Authority’s Report of Findings and Conclusions and Recommendation to the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, published on 16 February 2024, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the measures set out in the Mallard Pass Solar Farm Outline Employment, Skills and Supply Chain Plan (Clean) published on 19 September 2023 on the ethical sourcing of solar panels.

Answer

Michael Shanks
Labour
Rutherglen
Commons

Answered on

22 July 2024

The full reasons for the Secretary of State’s planning decision on the Mallard Pass project are set out in the Decision Letter. Given the Secretary of State’s quasi-judicial role in taking such decisions we are not able to give any further information at this stage, in line with the Planning Propriety Guidance on nationally significant infrastructure decisions.

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