Question follow-through · 33065
Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of proposals to move the Chinese Embassy to the former Royal Mint building on security.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 24 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 4 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
24 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of proposals to move the Chinese Embassy to the former Royal Mint building on security.
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Mar 2025
Answer published
As set out in a joint letter by the Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary to the Planning Inspector on 14 January, the Home Office has considered the breadth of national security issues in relation to the planning application.It would not be appropriate to...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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