Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential effects of changes to planning permission for onshore wind projects on investment in the offshore wind sector.

I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement of 18 June 2015, HCWS42, which sets out that the new planning considerations apply to planning applications for onshore wind development in England involving one or more wind turbines and do not apply to offshore wind projects.