Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when the final version of the Review of housing needs for caravans and houseboats: draft guidance will be published.

We are considering the future of this draft guidance, alongside whether any changes may be required to the Planning Policy for Traveller Sites, in light of the responses to the recent consultations on the revised National Planning Policy Framework, and unauthorised development and encampments. We will announce a way forward in due course. While this guidance is published in draft form, it is a matter for each local authority to decide the weight that is given to it.