Question follow-through · 101368
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to accelerate planning decisions and increase housing supply, particularly in areas with acute demand.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 18 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 12 Jan 2026 · 25 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
18 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to accelerate planning decisions and increase housing supply, particularly in areas with acute demand.
5 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jan 2026
Answer published
The government has taken a range of steps to accelerate planning decisions and increase housing supply. In December 2024, we published a revised pro-growth National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). We are currently consulting on further reforms to the NP...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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