Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of of deployment of (a) solar rooftop and (b) solar farm in the last 12 months.

The Government keeps trends in the deployment of solar generation facilities under review as part of our on-going policy development process.

Data on deployment levels by accreditation are published in Table 2 in “Solar photovoltaic deployment in the United Kingdom, published January 2018” (available at this link - https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/solar-photovoltaics-deployment )[1]

[1] Note that these figures are provisional and are likely to be revised in subsequent publications. This will be updated (to December 2017) on 22 February 2018.