Question follow-through · 33044
Chinese Embassy: Lowick
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has had communications with the company Lowick on the proposed new Chinese Embassy.
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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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- 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, whether her Department has had communications with the company Lowick on the proposed new Chinese Embassy.
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Mar 2025
Answer published
A final decision on China’s planning application for a new embassy has yet to be made. The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities, and Local Government in her independent, quasi-judicial role will make the final decision in due course.As such, it wou...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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