Question follow-through · 83788
Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has received the remaining unredacted internal drawings for the proposed development of the Chinese Embassy.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 21 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 3 Nov 2025 · 13 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
21 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has received the remaining unredacted internal drawings for the proposed development of the Chinese Embassy.
23 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Planning Inspector's Report was received by the Department on 10 June. Following careful analysis of the report, the Secretary of State referred back to parties on a number of matters, including the redacted drawings, on 6 August. The reference back p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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