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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions he had with (a) his Department’s Permanent Secretary and (b) the Government Legal Service on the the compliance of his decision to determine the planning application for the former Westferry Printworks site (235 Westferry Road, London E14 3QS) (PA/18/01877/A1) with the (i) Ministerial Code and (ii) Nolan Principles for standards in public life.

The full reasons for the Secretary of State’s decision are set out in his Decision Letter of 14 January, which is published here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/857952/20-01-14_DL+IR_Westferry.pdf.