Draft Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 Debate

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Department: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Draft Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026

Melanie Onn Excerpts
Wednesday 17th June 2026

(1 month, 4 weeks ago)

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Melanie Onn Portrait Melanie Onn (Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes) (Lab)
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It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Jardine. I have some quick questions that I probably ought to have raised in an intervention. They relate to regulation 3, which will impact the Marine Management Organisation.

What additional burdens will the regulation put on the MMO? Have discussions been had with the MMO about adding the new strategic planning authority to the list? It does not sound as though there will be many new burdens, but has that definitely been checked? Might additional costs be incurred by the MMO as a result? Also, what would the relationship be between the MMO and the strategic planning authority? Would either have a veto over plans that are put forward?

I just want to get a sense of what the Minister anticipates the relationship between the strategic planning authority and the MMO will look like.