Question follow-through · 84930
New Towns: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the initial Government response to the independent report entitled New Towns Taskforce, published on 28 September 2025, whether the (a) plan-making for the site
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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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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, with reference to the initial Government response to the independent report entitled New Towns Taskforce, published on 28 September 2025, whether the (a) plan-making for the site
28 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Nov 2025
Answer published
I refer the Rt Hon. Member to the government’s initial response to the New Towns Taskforce’s final report which can be found on gov.uk here.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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