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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reason the Government has only responded to part of the consultation launched on 23 March 2014 into planning performance and planning contraventions; and when it intends to respond to the remainder of that consultation.

To reduce the burden of consultation paperwork on councils, industry and other interested parties, we seek where possible to bundle up and combine consultations, to make it easier to respond. However, we may respond to the individual topics in stages.

We will publish a formal response to the ‘planning contributions’ part of that consultation document in due course.

We are taking the same approach to the Technical Consultation on Planning published in July, which wrapped up consultations on six separate policy areas.