Question follow-through · 107915
Planning Permission: Public Consultation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact on planning outcomes of the decision to remove statutory consultee status from certain bodies in the planning process.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 22 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 30 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential impact on planning outcomes of the decision to remove statutory consultee status from certain bodies in the planning process.
26 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jan 2026
Answer published
On 18 November 2025, my Department published a consultation on reforms to the statutory consultee system. That consultation, which can be found on gov.uk here, closed on 13 January 2026. The consultation asked for views on the impact of removing consultee...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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