Question follow-through · 906721
Infrastructure: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to expedite nationally significant infrastructure projects.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 27 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 4 Dec 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
27 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to expedite nationally significant infrastructure projects.
4 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Dec 2025
Answer published
The government made 21 decisions on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) in the first year of this Parliament. This compares with the first year of the last Parliament in which only 15 decisions were made and represents the highest numbe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Social Rented Housing: Furniture
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Hazards in Social Housing (Prescribed Requirements) (England) Regulations 2025
20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to help ensure the enforcement of the Hazards in Social Housing (Prescribed Requirements) (England) Regulations 2025.
Housing: Standards
20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking with local authorities to improve the quality of local housing stock.
Council Tax Reduction Schemes
20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of a uniform council tax support scheme for all local authorities.