Question follow-through · 85536
Housing: Buckinghamshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many housing developments in Buckinghamshire are expected to benefit from reduced permitting times as a result of the new exempt-low-risk-activity provisions.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 27 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 3 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 4 · 1 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 2 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
27 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many housing developments in Buckinghamshire are expected to benefit from reduced permitting times as a result of the new exempt-low-risk-activity provisions.
29 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Nov 2025
Answer published
Proposed changes to environmental permitting will make controls more proportionate for certain low-risk preparatory work associated with house building and other developments. The Environment Agency (EA) will be able to create new exemptions from environ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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