Written Question·Home Office·UIN 104688

Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission

Tabled: 12 January 2026
Answered: 20 January 2026

Question

Bob Blackman

ConservativeHarrow East

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessments of the potential impact of approving a new Chines embassy on Hong Kongers in the UK.

Answer

Dan Jarvis
The decision on whether or not to approve planning permission for the proposed Chinese Embassy site at the Royal Mint Court is an independent one for the Secretary of State for the Ministry for Housing, Communities, and Local Government in his quasi-judic...

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