Question follow-through · 33484
Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether 10 Downing Street has had communications with the company Lowick on the proposed new Chinese Embassy.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 25 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 3 Mar 2025 · 6 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
25 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether 10 Downing Street has had communications with the company Lowick on the proposed new Chinese Embassy.
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2025
Answer published
The decision to call in the planning application for the proposed Chinese Embassy was made by the Deputy Prime Minister, in line with current policy on call-in. Details of ministerial meetings with external organisations are published on gov.uk, and relev...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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