Question follow-through · 75895
Charities: Planning
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure that the National Planning Policy Framework supports charities.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 8 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 16 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Housing and planning
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- Local Government: Reorganisation · 16 Sept 2025
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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
8 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure that the National Planning Policy Framework supports charities.
10 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Sept 2025
Answer published
The National Planning Policy Framework supports the facilities and services communities need. It makes clear that planning policies and decisions should plan positively for the provision and use of shared spaces, community facilities and other local servi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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First Time Buyers: East of England
9 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the average house price for first time buyers in East England.
Owner Occupation: Young People
9 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the impact of house price growth in the last year on home ownership rates among young people.
Housing: Young People
9 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to introduce targeted housing initiatives to support young people in high-cost areas.
Local Government: Reorganisation
16 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he plans to take to support newly formed councils inheriting debts from councils due to be abolished in local government reorganisation.
Local Government: Reorganisation
16 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to issue guidance to newly created local councils who inherit areas at different stages of the local plan-making process and have not adopted a local plan.
Local Government: Reorganisation
16 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to issue guidance to newly created local councils inheriting different areas with and without adopted local plans in place.
Local Government: Elections
16 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether shadow council elections will operate on existing ward boundaries.
Local Government: Elections
16 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether shadow council elections in 2027 for new councils will utilise existing district magnitudes.
Local Government: Elections
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Local Government: Reorganisation
16 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has issued guidance to local councils due to be reorganised encouraging the creation of joint committees to advise on measures to synchronise plans for provision of lo
Local Government: Essex
16 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to amend the first past the post voting system for local council elections in Essex following local government reorganisation.