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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will estimate the proportion of land designated as greenbelt in each local authority area in the North West.

Published statistics on the area of designated Green Belt within each local authority area as at 31 March 2016 are available from Annex Table 1 at:https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-green-belt-statistics-for-england-2015-to-2016.

Published statistics on the area of each local authority as at 31 December 2016 are available from: http://ons.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=a79de233ad254a6d9f76298e666abb2b on the ONS Open Geography Portal. The ‘area to mean high water (coastline)’ measure is used to calculate the National Statistics figure on the proportion of England that is designated Green Belt.