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Alec Shelbrooke
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Matthew Pennycook
I am more than happy to meet my hon. Friend about the issue.
Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Wetherby and Easingwold) (Con)
The Home Secretary will potentially soon be asking the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government to use a Crown development order to approve planning in Linton-on-Ouse for an asylum centre. I ask the Secretary of State to reject that as undemocratic, and to ensure that the application goes through the locally elected North Yorkshire planning authority.
Matthew Pennycook
It will depend on whether the application in question meets the criteria to allow it to proceed down the Crown development route. Obviously, the applicant is separate from our Department; we are the stewards of the process and will make the determination on the basis of those criteria.