Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 906721

Infrastructure: Planning Permission

Tabled: 27 November 2025
Answered: 4 December 2025
Named Day

Question

Mrs Elsie Blundell

LabourHeywood and Middleton North

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to expedite nationally significant infrastructure projects.

Answer

Matthew Pennycook
The government made 21 decisions on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) in the first year of this Parliament. This compares with the first year of the last Parliament in which only 15 decisions were made and represents the highest numbe...

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