Question follow-through · 14754
Planning: Inspections
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent steps her Department has taken to reduce backlogs of cases before the Planning Inspectorate.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 18 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 20 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 26 Nov 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
18 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent steps her Department has taken to reduce backlogs of cases before the Planning Inspectorate.
20 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Planning Inspectorate has been performing well across a number of key areas such as local plan examinations, nationally significant infrastructure project applications, s62a applications and planning appeals proceeding by hearings and inquiries. It is...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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