Question follow-through · 75319
Planning: Cambridgeshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, CP 1337, published on 23 June 2025, how many new planning officers will be recruited in (a) Cambridgeshire and (b) Huntingd
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 4 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 12 Sept 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
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Recorded timeline
4 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, CP 1337, published on 23 June 2025, how many new planning officers will be recruited in (a) Cambridgeshire and (b) Huntingd
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Sept 2025
Answer published
The government has committed to recruiting at least 300 additional planners as part of our Planning Capacity and Capability Programme. Recruitment is being delivered through national schemes such as the Local Government Association’s Pathways to Planning ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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