Oral Question·COP26
“What recent assessment he has made of the role of carbon capture and storage in meeting the UK's climate change and COP26 commitments.”
Tabled: 24 February 2022Answered: 2 March 2022
Answering Minister
the President of COP26
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Housing and Planning (Matthew Pennycook)
Water companies are not statutory consultees on individual planning applications, but they are consulted as part of the preparation of local development plans. On 26 January, the Government declared a moratorium on any new statutory consultees and announced a review of the existing statutory consultee arrangements. A consultation on proposals designed to limit the scope of statcons to where advice is strictly necessary and to remove entirely a limited number of them will be published in the near future.