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Written Question
Westferry Printworks: Planning Permission
Tuesday 16th June 2020

Asked by: Lord Adonis (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government required the issue of any ministerial directions, or expressed any concerns as accounting officer, in respect of the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government’s decisions relating to the Northern and Shell Corporation’s planning application for the development of Westferry Printworks.

Answered by Lord Greenhalgh

No.


Written Question
Westferry Printworks: Planning Permission
Tuesday 16th June 2020

Asked by: Lord Adonis (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what communication they had, if any, with the Mayor of Tower Hamlets about Northern and Shell's planning application for Westferry Printworks.

Answered by Lord Greenhalgh

Details of Ministerial meetings with external organisations are published regularly and can be found at the following link on gov.uk:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dclg-ministerial-data

The Secretary of State declined to discuss the application with both the Mayor of Tower Hamlets and the developers.

The Planning Inspector’s Report sets out a schedule of representations received by the Inspector. Special Advisers did not meet with the developers or local authority. Officials in MHCLG had no meetings and received no communications from executives of Northern and Shell.


Written Question
Westferry Printworks: Planning Permission
Tuesday 16th June 2020

Asked by: Lord Adonis (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what (1) meetings, and (2) communications, took place between the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Richard Desmond in (a) 2019, and (b) 2020; and whether they will place the records of these meetings and communications in the Library of the House.

Answered by Lord Greenhalgh

Details of Ministerial meetings with external organisations are published regularly and can be found at the following link on gov.uk:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dclg-ministerial-data

The Secretary of State declined to discuss the application with both the Mayor of Tower Hamlets and the developers.

The Planning Inspector’s Report sets out a schedule of representations received by the Inspector. Special Advisers did not meet with the developers or local authority. Officials in MHCLG had no meetings and received no communications from executives of Northern and Shell.


Written Question
Westferry Printworks: Planning Permission
Tuesday 16th June 2020

Asked by: Lord Adonis (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what (1) meetings, and (2) communications, took place involving special advisers and officials of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and executives of the Northern and Shell Corporation in (a) 2019, and (b) 2020; and whether they will place the (i) participant lists, and (ii) records, of these meetings and communications in the Library of the House.

Answered by Lord Greenhalgh

Details of Ministerial meetings with external organisations are published regularly and can be found at the following link on gov.uk:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dclg-ministerial-data

The Secretary of State declined to discuss the application with both the Mayor of Tower Hamlets and the developers.

The Planning Inspector’s Report sets out a schedule of representations received by the Inspector. Special Advisers did not meet with the developers or local authority. Officials in MHCLG had no meetings and received no communications from executives of Northern and Shell.


Written Question
Westferry Printworks: Planning Permission
Tuesday 9th June 2020

Asked by: Lord Adonis (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government was made aware that the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government met Richard Desmond in November 2019 prior to the Department's decisions in respect of the Northern and Shell Corporation’s planning application for the development of Westferry Printworks. [T]

Answered by Lord Greenhalgh

Planning Ministers act in accordance with the MHCLG Guidance on Planning Proprietary Issues. This guidance is published (attached) on gov.uk and is available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/5998/2091742.pdf


Written Question
Westferry Printworks: Planning Permission
Tuesday 9th June 2020

Asked by: Lord Adonis (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government informed the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government of his previous contacts with (1) Richard Desmond, and (2) executives of the Northern and Shell Corporation, prior to the Department's decisions in respect of the Northern and Shell Corporation in the past year; and if so, what action was taken in response.

Answered by Lord Greenhalgh

Planning Ministers act in accordance with the MHCLG Guidance on Planning Proprietary Issues. This guidance is published (attached) on gov.uk and is available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/5998/2091742.pdf