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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information (a) her department or (b) the Planning Inspectorate holds on the number of planning applications subsequently withdrawn following a call in Mayors.

It will be for individual mayors to decide how frequent they want to use their call in powers.

Currently only the Mayor of London is able to use such powers. Based on public information by the Greater London Authority, the Mayor has called in 36 applications for development of potential strategic importance since 2017. Of those, two were withdrawn by the applicant before the hearing stage took place, a further two were refused by the Mayor, and the remaining 32 were granted planning permission, 30 of which after the local planning authority resolved to refuse the application.

My Department does not collect data on the time taken to determine these applications.