Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Kris Hopkins and Alex Cunningham

Monday 20th January 2014 Commons Chamber

[Kris Hopkins]

This Government have been robust in laying out guidelines relating to landscape, heritage and local amenities, and in ensuring that the Secretary of State can recover those applications to ensure the guidelines have been adhered to. I reassure my hon. and learned Friend that since the proposals were brought in, the proportion of successful applications has dropped from 52% to 36%.

[Alex Cunningham (Stockton North) (Lab)]

3. What assessment he has made of the potential effect of his Department’s proposed change to permitted development rights on the number of (a) betting shops and (b) fixed-odds betting terminals on high streets.