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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the letter to her department from Innovate UK on the Chinese Embassy call-in request, disclosed under EIR reference EIR2024/31081 on 3 March 2025, whether Innovate UK re-submitted their 2022 call-in request when the current planning application was re-submitted by the Chinese Government.

A further call-in request was received from Innovate UK on 16 October 2024, after the planning application had been called in on 14 October 2024.

We do not routinely publish planning representations seeking call in of applications.