Question follow-through · 84946
Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish the letter sent to the Rule 6 participants on 16 October 2025 announcing the delay in the target date for the Chinese Embassy decision.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 24 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 3 Nov 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Housing and planning
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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
24 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish the letter sent to the Rule 6 participants on 16 October 2025 announcing the delay in the target date for the Chinese Embassy decision.
28 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Nov 2025
Answer published
We do not routinely publish correspondence to parties on live cases. Letters to the Rule 6 participants will be listed in the final decision letter, and will be available on request when the decision is published.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Private Rented Housing: Licensing and Regulation
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Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission
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Political Parties: Finance
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Local Government Pension Scheme
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