WESTMINSTER RADAR
Search
My MPs
Menu

Question follow-through · 65787

Neighbourhood Plans

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department is taking steps to increase the role of neighbourhood plans in the planning process.

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
8 Jul 2025
Target answer date
10 Jul 2025
Answer
21 Jul 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

More questions by this MP on Housing and planning

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Votes on this topic

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

  1. 8 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department is taking steps to increase the role of neighbourhood plans in the planning process.

  2. 10 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 21 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The government remains of the view that neighbourhood plans can play an important role in the planning system. Communities can continue to prepare neighbourhood plans where they consider that doing so is in their best interests.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Neighbourhood Plans

9 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department is taking steps to help ensure that developers take account of adopted neighbourhood plans.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Neighbourhood Plans

9 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of neighbourhood planning policies in involving local communities in the planning process.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Recreation Spaces: Caravan Sites

9 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of current measures to protect public green spaces from (a) unauthorised encampments and (b) environmental damage.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Police: Community Relations

9 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she plans to take with local authorities to help encourage social cohesion at a neighbourhood level.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Housing: Finance

9 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish the regional allocation of (a) local authority housing and (b) affordable homes programme funds in the Spending Review 2025.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Regeneration: Finance

9 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding her Department plans to provide for brownfield remediation in the (a) 2025-26 and (b) 2026-27 financial year.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Affordable Housing

15 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many affordable homes she plans to deliver in this Parliament.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Affordable Housing: Construction

15 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many affordable homes have been built since July 2024.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Infrastructure: Construction

15 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of infrastructure developments on agricultural land.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Affordable Housing: West Midlands

15 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2025 to Question 62958 on Affordable Housing: West Midlands, when he will publish a figure for the funding that has been allocated to the West Mi

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Housing: West Midlands

15 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Oral Contribution of the Secretary of State for Transport: Road and Rail Projects delivered on 8 July 2025, how many of the 39,000 new properties will be bu

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Housing: Construction

15 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Oral Contribution of the Secretary of State for Transport: Road and Rail Projects delivered on 8 July 2025, when the 39,000 new properties will be built.