Question follow-through · 66336
Transport: Planning
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions she has had with local authorities on their use of her Department's connectivity tool in (a) plan-making and (b) decision-taking.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 9 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 14 Jul 2025 · 5 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 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions she has had with local authorities on their use of her Department's connectivity tool in (a) plan-making and (b) decision-taking.
14 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Connectivity Tool was launched on 26 June and is free to use by all local authorities via the gov.uk website. The tool is jointly badged with the MHCLG and has been explicitly designed in collaboration with local authorities to help inform their plans...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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