Question follow-through · 59078
Telecommunications: Planning
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will update the NPPF to include guidance on the importance of telecommunications infrastructure in any major planning decisions.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 11 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 19 Jun 2025 · 8 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
11 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will update the NPPF to include guidance on the importance of telecommunications infrastructure in any major planning decisions.
13 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Jun 2025
Answer published
The government is committed to supporting investment in high-quality, reliable digital connectivity so that communities can benefit from faster economic growth and greater social inclusion. Chapter 10 of the National Planning Policy Framework sets out the...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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