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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he is taking steps to provide additional financial resources to local planning authorities to enforce planning conditions where they are imposed by the Government as part of a nationally strategic site.

We are already working closely with the Planning Advisory Service and several local authorities to understand how local authorities currently engage with the Nationally Significant Infrastructure regime and are considering ways to improve outcomes.

As part of our work to make improvements to the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects regime, we have established the Innovation & Capacity Fund where £760,000 has been shared amongst 10 local authorities to support them in trialling new and innovative ways to engage with the NSIP planning process.