Question follow-through · 45668
Green Belt
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many hectares of land were designated as green belt in each year since 1997.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 17 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many hectares of land were designated as green belt in each year since 1997.
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Department publishes an annual release entitled 'Local authority green belt statistics for England', which includes information on hectares of land designated as Green Belt in England, as well as by local authority. An accompanying live table entitled...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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