Question follow-through · 86377
Planning Permission: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of requiring the disclosure of the true beneficiary of a planning application to enhance public scrutiny.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 29 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 7 Nov 2025 · 9 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
29 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of requiring the disclosure of the true beneficiary of a planning application to enhance public scrutiny.
3 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Nov 2025
Answer published
Planning permissions relate to plots of land and so the identity of the applicant and the ownership of land are not normally material considerations in planning decisions. Disclosure of the true beneficiary of a planning permission would therefore not aff...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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