Ministers have cut subsidies for farms installing solar panels arguing they drive food production overseas but they do not know how much land is out of production, reports BusinessGreen
The row between Labour and the government over solar farm policy is rumbling on, after the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) again admitted it had no detailed information on how solar arrays may impact food production, despite environment secretary Liz Truss assertion that the expansion of solar farms represents a big problem.
Responding to a written question from Labours shadow climate change minister Julie Elliott late last week, farming minister George Eustice dodged the request for Defra to reveal what estimate has been made for the number of solar farms in the UK that include livestock grazing.