Question follow-through · 52814

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the National Planning Policy Framework to ensure that (a) schools, (b) hospitals, (c) sewage capacit

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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
15 May 2025
Target answer date
19 May 2025
Answer
23 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the National Planning Policy Framework to ensure that (a) schools, (b) hospitals, (c) sewage capacit

  2. 19 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 May 2025

    Answer published

    I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 26106 on 5 February 2025.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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