Question follow-through · 110529
Hospitals: Air Ambulance Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the need to introduce a legal requirement to consider access to hospital helipads in any planning application in the vicinity of a hospital.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 3 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 5 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 11 Feb 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
3 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the need to introduce a legal requirement to consider access to hospital helipads in any planning application in the vicinity of a hospital.
5 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Feb 2026
Answer published
The government is currently consulting on a new National Planning Policy Framework that includes clearer, ‘rules based’ policies for decision-making and plan-making. The proposed new Framework gives substantial weight to the benefits of providing new or i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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