Question follow-through · 75371
Planning: Flood Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to bring forward legislation on the treatment of flooding in the planning system before the end of the current Session.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 5 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 15 Sept 2025 · 10 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
5 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to bring forward legislation on the treatment of flooding in the planning system before the end of the current Session.
9 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Sept 2025
Answer published
The government has no plans to bring forward primary legislation concerning the treatment of flooding in the planning system, given the strong safeguards which already exist in national planning policy.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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