Question follow-through · 119933
Data Centres: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many data centre developments have been granted consent under the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects regime.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 11 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 23 Mar 2026 · 12 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
11 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many data centre developments have been granted consent under the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects regime.
16 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Mar 2026
Answer published
To date, no data centres have been granted consent under the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects regime.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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