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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that the risk of groundwater flooding is taken into account by a local planning authority for planning applications in areas with high concentrations of chalk geology.

I refer the Rt Hon. Member to policies P3(2)(f), N1(1)(a-b), and Chapter F of the new National Planning Policy Framework published on 17 August.