Question follow-through · 1519

Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Planning and Infrastructure Bill will include measures to reform the judicial review process to speed up planning decisions.

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

About this written question

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Answering body: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled: 24 Jul 2024
Target answer date: 26 Jul 2024
Answer: 1 Aug 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026

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Recorded timeline

24 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Planning and Infrastructure Bill will include measures to reform the judicial review process to speed up planning decisions.
26 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Aug 2024
Answer published
Work on the Bill is underway and we will provide more details in due course.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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25 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to amend nutrient neutrality rules.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Housing: Construction

25 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many submitted planning permission applications are unable to progress due to nutrient neutrality rules.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Housing: Construction

25 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to introduce legislation to allow housebuilding delayed by nutrient neutrality rules derived from European Union case law.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Public Expenditure

25 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what underspends there are within (a) her Department and (b) each of her Department's arms length bodies in this (a) financial year and (b) spending review period.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Cost Effectiveness

25 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans she has for new efficiency savings in (a) her Department and (b) each of its arms length bodies.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Levelling Up Fund

25 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether money allocated through the Levelling Up Fund will be given to local authorities to spend.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Derelict Land

25 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how she plans to permit the fast-tracking of brownfield land.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Local Plans

25 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities do not have up-to-date local plans.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Council Tax

25 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to cap council tax rises.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

First Time Buyers

25 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans she has to support home ownership for first-time buyers.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Local Plans

25 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities she expects to have up-to-date local plans on (a) 4 July 2025, (b) 4 July 2026, (c) 4 July 2027, (d) 4 July 2028 and (e) at the end of this Parliament.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Homelessness: Departmental Coordination

25 Jul 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the report by the National Audit Office entitled The effectiveness of government in tackling homelessness, published on 23 July 2024, HC 119, if she will accept