Question follow-through · 46355
Local Plans
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will direct the Planning Inspector to give greater consideration to draft local plans that have met early submission deadlines during the examination stage.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 17 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Housing and planning
- Social Rented Housing: Construction · 23 Apr 2025
- Council Housing: Construction · 23 Apr 2025
- Right to Buy Scheme · 23 Apr 2025
- Social Rented Housing: Finance · 30 Apr 2025
- Social Rented Housing: Finance · 30 Apr 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
17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will direct the Planning Inspector to give greater consideration to draft local plans that have met early submission deadlines during the examination stage.
24 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2025
Answer published
The National Planning Policy Framework sets out expectations in relation to the examination of local plans. I also refer the hon. Member to my July 2024 letter to the Planning Inspectorate about the examination of local plans, which remains in force and c...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Social Rented Housing: Construction
23 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Right to Buy scheme on local councils’ ability to invest in new social housing.
Council Housing: Construction
23 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has considered allowing local authorities to (a) retain and (b) reinvest all proceeds from Right to Buy sales into building new council homes.
Right to Buy Scheme
23 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that homes sold under Right to Buy are not used as private rental properties.
Social Rented Housing: Finance
30 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will provide funding for social rent homes in the Spending Review.
Social Rented Housing: Finance
30 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of providing additional funding for social rent homes in the forthcoming spending review.
Houseboats
30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what comparative assessment she has made of the (a) rights and (b) protections available to (i) residential boaters that rent moorings in marinas and (ii) land-based tenants.
Houseboats: Databases
30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of potential benefits of including landlords of residential boats in the proposed Private Rented Sector database.
Social Rented Housing: Hertfordshire
30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to support social landlords to gain equitable access to building safety remediation funding in (a) Harpenden and Berkhamsted constituency, (b)
Supported Housing: Hertfordshire
30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to protect supported housing in (a) Harpenden and Berkhamsted constituency and (b) Hertfordshire.
Conveyancing: Reform
19 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to reform the residential conveyancing process to (a) reduce the time taken and (b) increase transparency for (i) buyers and (ii) sellers.
Property: Sales
19 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to support the digitalisation of the property transaction process.
Planning Permission: Appeals
19 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the time taken for enforcement appeals pending by written representations.