Member

Amendment 178 seeks to ensure that local plans comply with the land use framework and nature recovery strategies. I am grateful to my noble friend, as ever, for her contributions to these discussions. The land use framework was consulted on between January and April this year. The responses and subsequent workshop feedback are currently being analysed and will inform the production of the land use framework, which will be produced—I am sorry to say this—“in due course”. As noble Lords will be aware, it is not my department, but I will ask officials and my noble friend the Minister for Defra whether there is any update on timing. Noble Lords are quite right that we now have the former Secretary of State for Defra as our Secretary of State, so there is a nice join-up there.