Member

Amendments 12 to 15 tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Coffey would remove the new reflective amendment procedure, adding months to the timeframe for updating national policy statements and undermining the Government’s commitment to drive quicker decision-making in the NSIP regime. Ensuring that national policy statements are up to date assists applicants and the examining authority, and the Secretary of State can have regard to them as important and relevant considerations in the decision-making process for NSIP applications, even if the application is examined against the previous version as a result of the transitional provisions in the updated national policy statement.