Planning Permission

Lord Hain Excerpts

Tuesday 15th December 2015 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Williams of Trafford]

My Lords, I do not recognise the 13% figure cited by my noble friend, because we do not publish national statistics on the percentage of decisions outstanding after a year. We publish figures on the periods within which a decision has been made. For major developments, in the most recent quarter, 10% of applications took more than a year to decide, or were decided after the end of an agreed extended time period, as set out in the planning performance agreement or extension of time, which could be anything over 13 or 16 weeks.

[Lord Hain (Lab)]

If Schengen was suspended, why would the French Government—

[Noble Lords]

Wrong Question!