Question follow-through · 58289
Planning: Bank Services and Postal Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that adequate access to (a) banking and (b) postal services is considered during the planning process.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 9 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jun 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
9 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that adequate access to (a) banking and (b) postal services is considered during the planning process.
12 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jun 2025
Answer published
The National Planning Policy Framework is clear that planning policies and decisions should plan positively for the provision and use of community facilities and other local services to enhance the sustainability of communities and residential environment...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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