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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the answer of 24 October to Question 64119 on Planning: Inspections, how many cases within the planning inspectorate were waiting for a planning inspector to be assigned at the end of (a) 2018, (b) 2019, (c) 2020 and (d) 2021.

The headcount and FTE of Planning Inspectors employed by the Planning Inspectorate as at 31 December of each year was as follows:

The number of valid appeal cases waiting a planning inspector to be assigned at 01 December of each year was as below. The data for 2018 and 2019 are not held centrally in the requested format.