PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Renewable Energy (17 June 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many (a) solar panels and (b) wind turbines his Department's buildings (a) have in 2020 and (b) had in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)

Defra has 83 sites with solar panels and six sites with wind turbines or direct drive wind pumps.

We also have 104 operational solar panels that directly power equipment such as remote cameras and sensors.

We have taken the department to mean those entities covered by our greening Government commitments. However, we are waiting for responses from Kew and the Forestry Commission.

Table 1: Year of installation

Type	Pre 2015-16	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-2020
Solar Panels	68 sites	0 sites	0 sites	9 sites	5 sites	1 site
Wind	6 sites

We do not hold the information on the dates the operational panels for remote equipment were installed.

Answered by:
Victoria Prentis (Conservative)
25 June 2020