Question follow-through · 47991
Planning: Vacancies
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans her Department has to help tackle shortages of professional services in design and planning stages of (a) infrastructure and (b) housing.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 24 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 1 May 2025 · 7 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
24 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans her Department has to help tackle shortages of professional services in design and planning stages of (a) infrastructure and (b) housing.
28 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 May 2025
Answer published
Professional services across the built environment are vital to delivering both infrastructure and housing.A significant amount of beneficial and innovative work is being undertaken by the sector to identify and deliver the professional skills that will b...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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