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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities have a Community Infrastructure Levy (a) approved and (b) in operation.

The following eighteen authorities in England and Wales have had their Community Infrastructure Levy Charging Schedules approved at examination but are yet to either formerly adopt, or to start charging, the levy:

Barking and Dagenham

Haringey

Hertsmere

Hillingdon

Islington

Lambeth

Lewisham

New Forest

Richmond Upon Thames

Rhondda Cynon Taf

Sedgemoor

Sevenoaks

Surrey Heath

Tandridge

Teignbridge

West Berkshire

West Lancashire

Woking

The following forty-five authorities are currently charging the Community Infrastructure Levy, having passed the independent examination.

Barnet

Bassetlaw

Bedford

Brent

Bristol

Broadland

Caerphilly

Chelmsford

Chorley

City of London

Croydon

Dartford

East Cambridgeshire

Elmbridge

Epsom and Ewell

Exeter

Fareham

Greater London Authority

Harrow

Havant

Huntingdonshire

Merthyr Tydfil

Merton

Newark and Sherwood

Newham

Norwich

Oxford

Plymouth

Poole

Portsmouth

Preston

Purbeck

Redbridge

Shropshire

Southampton

South Norfolk

South Ribble

Sutton

Taunton Deane

Trafford

Waltham Forest

Wandsworth

Waveney

Winchester

Wycombe

In addition to the 63 authorities listed above, a further 116 authorities have made significant progress towards adopting the levy.

Of the 116, 21 authorities have either submitted their levy charging schedules for examination or been scheduled for examination, a further 25 have published a draft charging schedule for consultation and a further 70 have published a preliminary draft charging schedule for consultation.