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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many onshore wind development planning applications that had been considered by local planning authorities were subsequently called in by his Department in each of the five years.

Since January 2010 three applications for onshore wind development have been called in by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. The three applications have all been called in during 2014.

All three followed requests by local or neighbouring Members of Parliament to call in the applications.