Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many of the solar panels imported over the last three years were made in China; and whether they have plans to increase the proportion of solar panels manufactured domestically.

The Department does not hold this information. HMRC publishes the value and mass of solar panels imported, by country, on its data portal at www.uktradeinfo.com/trade-data/ots-custom-table/.

While the UK has no large-scale conventional solar manufacturing, the Solar Roadmap sets out a number of actions to strengthen domestic supply chains, such as considering the case to further support companies looking to scale up the production of innovative solar technologies and balance of system components, and an online directory to make it easier for solar manufacturers to locate their operations in the UK.