Question follow-through · 36338
Infrastructure: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to improve transparency in the pre-application process for nationally significant infrastructure projects.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 6 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2025 · 11 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
6 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to improve transparency in the pre-application process for nationally significant infrastructure projects.
10 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2025
Answer published
Duties set out Chapter 2 to Part 5 of the Planning Act 2008 require applicants for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) to publicise their proposals and consult specific persons and bodies as part of the pre-application process before th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Local Government: Insolvency
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Local Government Finance
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Local Government: Cost Effectiveness
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Local Government: Employers' Contributions
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Housing: Older People
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Housing: Older People
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Buildings: Disability
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Housing: Planning
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Housing: Essex
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