Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an estimate of the number of (a) planning applications that were rejected and (b) houses that were not built due to excess levels of nutrients in the ground in each of the last five years.

This department has launched the Local Nutrient Mitigation Fund which will boost the supply of mitigation available locally, by funding high quality bids submitted by local authorities. Funding decisions will be announced in due course.

The information requested on planning refusals is not held centrally.