When I climb the hill behind my home in the Lincolnshire Wolds, I can see, twenty miles away, a wonderful array of wind turbines in the North sea.

We love it locally — we love it for our economy — but nothing in that precludes oil and gas exploration.

If we in Lincolnshire are doing so much for green energy, why are we allowing the bread basket of England to be covered with solar farms?

We have 10,000 acres of them around Gainsborough, and there is another application for 3,900 acres at North Clifton.

I asked Government ministers to look at such mass applications in the round so that there is not overdevelopment in the break basket of England.

You can view a video of my question and the ministerial response.