Question follow-through · 33705
Planning: Climate Change
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that planning decisions support the Government’s climate targets.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 25 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 5 Mar 2025 · 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
25 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that planning decisions support the Government’s climate targets.
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Mar 2025
Answer published
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the world today, and the planning system can play a powerful role in helping to mitigate and adapt to its effects.The revised National Planning Policy Framework published on 12 December 2024 made som...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Planning: Nature Conservation
7 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to protect nature through the planning process.
Leasehold: Reform
7 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of abolishing residential leaseholds.
Social Rented Housing: Ely and East Cambridgeshire
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of social housing provision in Ely and East Cambridgeshire constituency.
Rural Areas
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Park Homes
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Electoral Register: British Nationals Abroad
27 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to encourage British residents overseas to register to vote in future elections.
Electoral Register: British Nationals Abroad
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Absent Voting
13 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of the postal voting system.
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