Question follow-through · 44282
Housing: Sewers
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department is taking steps to impose a legal duty on large-scale housing developments to include adequate sewage capacity.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 4 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 16 Apr 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Communities and local government
- Rented Housing: Tenants' Rights · 7 Apr 2025
- Sewers and Water: Property Development · 8 Apr 2025
- Property Development: Infrastructure · 8 Apr 2025
- Local Plans · 17 Apr 2025
- Property Development: Infrastructure · 17 Apr 2025
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Recorded timeline
4 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department is taking steps to impose a legal duty on large-scale housing developments to include adequate sewage capacity.
8 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Apr 2025
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the answer to Question UIN 40935 on 31 March 2025.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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