Question follow-through · 33933
Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether national security is a material planning consideration.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 26 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 10 Mar 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Housing and planning
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Special Advisers · 27 Feb 2025
- Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission · 27 Feb 2025
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Cost Effectiveness · 27 Feb 2025
- Freeports: Trade Unions · 27 Feb 2025
- Empty Property: Shops · 27 Feb 2025
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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
26 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether national security is a material planning consideration.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Mar 2025
Answer published
Paragraph 102 of the National Planning Policy Framework sets out how planning policies and decisions should promote public safety and take into account wider security and defence requirements. Each case is considered on their own merits.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Special Advisers
27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has appointed a foreign affairs adviser.
Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission
27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, on what date she expects the Planning Inspectorate to submit its report on the Chinese Embassy planning inquiry.
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Cost Effectiveness
27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2025 to Question 22385 on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Cost Effectiveness, if she will itemise efficiency savings i
Freeports: Trade Unions
27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2025, to Question 28309 on Freeports: Trade Unions, whether freeport board members are subject to fiduciary duty to shareholders.
Empty Property: Shops
27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2025 to Question 25695 on Empty Property: Shops, by what date she plans to end funding on a bidding scheme basis.
Empty Property: Council Tax
27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what (a) research and (b) evaluation she has undertaken on the impact of the number of empty homes on empty home premiums for council tax.
Empty Property: Council Tax
27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of (a) empty home premiums on council tax, (b) second home premiums on council tax and (c) planning conditions against the us
Unitary Councils
27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2025 to Question 26697 on Local Government: Reorganisation, when she expects the Local Government Boundary Commission for England to become i
Unitary Councils: Business Rates
27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will published (a) the process and (b) her Department's timetable for determining how the new unitary councils will be awarded local business rates for retention.
Local Government: Debts
27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the level of debt is of each local authority in England (a) in absolute terms and (b) as a percentage of annual budget.
Voting Rights: Foreign Nationals
28 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2025 to Question 21697 on Voting Rights: Foreign Nationals, whether she has considered amending the franchise for elections to (a) the UK Par
Social Rented Housing: Refugees
28 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what obligations local authorities have to provide state-subsidised housing to people with refugee status; and what priority they have.