Member

This Labour Government were elected five months ago with a mandate to deliver national renewal. Standing on the steps of Downing Street on 5 July, the Prime Minister made it clear that work on that urgent task would begin immediately, and it did. Within our first month in office, we proposed a bold set of reforms to overhaul a planning system that is faltering on all fronts after a decade of piecemeal and inept tinkering by the Conservative Party. Today I confirm to the House that we are delivering the change we promised by publishing an updated National Planning Policy Framework, meeting our commitment to do so before the end of the year, and supporting our ambitious Plan for Change milestone of building 1.5 million new homes in this Parliament.