Question follow-through · 57263
Reservoirs: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to amend planning (a) policy and (b) legislation to help facilitate the construction of new water reservoirs.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 4 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 20 Jun 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
4 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to amend planning (a) policy and (b) legislation to help facilitate the construction of new water reservoirs.
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jun 2025
Answer published
On 29 May, the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs announced the Fens and Lincolnshire Reservoirs would be given ‘nationally significant’ status and set out the government’s intention to legislate so that similar projects would ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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