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Commons Chamber
Rural Mobile Connectivity - Thu 12 Feb 2026
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) It is difficult to get planning permission for a new mast; there is a lack of planning resource in local - Speech Link
2: Julie Minns (Lab - Carlisle) That brings me to the second factor, which is planning policy. - Speech Link
3: Peter Fortune (Con - Bromley and Biggin Hill) the need to tackle non-commercial barriers to the roll-out of digital infrastructure by amending planning - Speech Link


Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None I recall that, during our debates on the Planning and Infrastructure Act, the noble Lord asked about - Speech Link
2: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) First, Amendment 235 essentially says that the planning uplift should be ignored. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Local Government Finance - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) The Government have given the council permission to put up its council tax by 9% without a referendum - Speech Link
2: Steve Darling (LD - Torbay) Friend agree that the Labour party has been learning from the Conservatives, and is planning to balance - Speech Link
3: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) It was the Labour Government, who were planning to go further, faster and deeper, according to Alistair - Speech Link
4: Terry Jermy (Lab - South West Norfolk) We massively need to support planning services in rural areas to achieve growth potential and not have - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Storm Chandra Flooding - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) engineering projects.The urgent need to build more homes has led to there being full or conditional planning - Speech Link
2: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice) This reality demands that we strengthen our resilience, not only through infrastructure but through planning - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Short-term Let Accommodation (Data Sharing Requirements)
1st reading - Wed 11 Feb 2026
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Rachel Blake (LAB - Cities of London and Westminster) the London-wide regulation that short lets can operate for no more than 90 nights per year without planning - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
New Homes Target - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) We are driving progress through bold planning reforms, including the Planning and Infrastructure Act - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) New measures were introduced in the Planning and Infrastructure Act to make sure that we deal effectively - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) a more strategic approach to nature recovery, and improving certainty in the decision-making and planning - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) We updated the National Planning Policy Framework. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Local Power Plan - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: None “With permission, I will make a Statement about the local power plan and allocation round 7 solar and - Speech Link
2: None the power they generate, and we will ensure community energy projects benefit from our reforms to planning - Speech Link
3: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) processes but want reassurance that this will not become a scheme where too much is swallowed by planning - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Supported Exempt Accommodation: Birmingham - Wed 11 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Ayoub Khan (Ind - Birmingham Perry Barr) powers and resources needed to enforce such standards, and greater control over the licensing and planning - Speech Link
2: Will Forster (LD - Woking) be set up and that after three years, the panel should come up with recommendations for changing planning - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Railways Bill (Thirteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 13th sitting - Tue 10 Feb 2026
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: None Committee by which the functions are exercisable.”This new clause requires collaborative strategic planning - Speech Link
2: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) Member for Didcot and Wantage, is intended to facilitate collaborative strategic planning between central - Speech Link
3: Keir Mather (Lab - Selby) I am confident that in giving GBR strategic responsibility for rail workforce planning, we will create - Speech Link
4: Keir Mather (Lab - Selby) That has been established as the appropriate balance between long-term planning and the realities of - Speech Link
5: Keir Mather (Lab - Selby) Throughout the business planning process, where infrastructure planning is captured, GBR will have a - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th sitting - Tue 10 Feb 2026
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: None or any other Member wishes to sit on the Front Bench to make life easier, they certainly have my permission - Speech Link
2: None as those relating to the profoundly regrettable decision to green-light the China super-embassy planning - Speech Link
3: Ben Spencer (Con - Runnymede and Weybridge) Frankly, I find it astounding that, according to my understanding, in response to the planning decision - Speech Link