Question follow-through · 124148
Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what progress has been made on making water companies statuary consultees when planning applications are submitted.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 17 Apr 2026 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Housing and planning
- Broadband: Planning · 24 Jun 2026
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Members · 10 Jul 2026
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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
26 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what progress has been made on making water companies statuary consultees when planning applications are submitted.
13 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Apr 2026
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Question UIN 60676 on 23 June 2025.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Broadband: Planning
24 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, in the context of consultation on the National Planning Policy Framework, if he will revise Part 9 to recognise mobile telecommunications as an essential service and reflect this
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Members
10 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many MP surgeries have Ministers in his Department had with MPs (a) in the period July 2024 to January 2025 and (b) since January 2025.