Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will list the proposed Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects relating to his Department that the Planning Inspectorate's Examining Authority recommended consent should be withheld from in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017, (d) 2018, (e) 2019, (f) 2020 and (g) 2021.
Applications for Development Consent Orders since 2015, for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects in the transport sector, where the Examining Authority has recommended withholding consent, are:
Year the Examining Authority’s Recommendation was received | Name of scheme |
2015 | East Midlands Gateway Rail Freight Interchange |
2019 | A63 Castle Street Improvement-Hull |
2019 | Manston Airport |
2019 | A303 Sparkford to Ilchester Dualling |
2020 | A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down |
Although decisions on these applications are always made in the name of the Secretary of State, some decisions are taken by other ministers within the Department for propriety reasons and without the involvement of the Secretary of State.