Question follow-through · 10835
Energy: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that community benefit funds provide adequate compensation to communities affected by nationally significant infrastructure projects.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 23 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 28 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
23 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that community benefit funds provide adequate compensation to communities affected by nationally significant infrastructure projects.
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2024
Answer published
It is the Government’s priority to build support for developments by ensuring communities directly benefit, as per the commitment set out in the election manifesto. As such we are reviewing how to most effectively deliver community benefits for communitie...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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