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

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the involvement of the Chinese Consul in Manchester in violence against a protestor, what plans they have, if any, to call-in the planning application PA/21/01327/A1 for the construction of a new Chinese embassy at Royal Mint Court.

Planning application PA/21/01327/A1 for the construction of a new Chinese embassy at Royal Mint Court is currently being considered by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has received a request that the application be called in. This request is under consideration. Government's policy on calling in applications is set out in a Written Ministerial Statement of 2012 (Hansard 26 October 2012, Columns 71WS and 72WS). This sets out that the Secretary of State's policy.