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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Independent review of build out: final report, published in October 2018, which of the recommendations of that review his Department has implemented.

The Government published its response to the Letwin report at Spring Statement 2019, with a full statement to the House by the then Communities Secretary on 13 March 2019. Since then, we have embarked an ambitious planning reform agenda, with faster build out a key objective. The Government consulted on this agenda in the ‘Planning for the Future’ White Paper and we are now considering responses before setting out the proposed way forward.