Question follow-through · 87300
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of updating the National Planning Policy Framework to include guidance on the importance of telecommunications infrastructur
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 3 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 10 Nov 2025 · 7 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
3 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of updating the National Planning Policy Framework to include guidance on the importance of telecommunications infrastructur
5 Nov 2025
Target answer date
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10 Nov 2025
Answer published
The National Planning Policy Framework makes clear that advanced, high quality and reliable communications infrastructure is essential for economic growth and social well-being. It sets out that planning policies and decisions should support the expansion...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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