Member

Making a decision to direct a project out of the NSIP regime would be a significant endeavour. It is right that the Government can be clear about when such information will be required from applicants, to enable robust and fair decisions to be made. It is the Government’s view that specifying this information in statutory guidance would reduce certainty for those making a request. The Government want to ensure that requests can be made and determined quickly, and that qualifying persons have certainty about when information is needed for such requests. It is therefore important that the Government retain the ability to make such provision in regulations. These will operate alongside non-statutory guidance to provide further detail about this measure as a whole.