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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many planning applications have been "called-in" in each of the last five years for which data is available; and how many of those applications included development (a) on or (b) adjacent to an airfield.

The number of planning applications called in for determination by the Secretary of
State in each of the last full five years is set out below.

Four involved either an existing airfield or were adjacent to an airfield.