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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his officials had access to the market evidence that formed the basis of the London Deputy Mayor for Planning's decision in April 2016 to accept a £45 million benchmark land value for the Westferry Printworks site; and what assessment his Department made of the implications for his policies of the level of compliance of that decision with the guidance as set out in the Mayor of London's Housing Supplementary Planning Guidance published in March 2016.

The Secretary of State’s conclusions on benchmark land value in relation to this site, and his assessment of the impacts on the provision of affordable housing are set out in full in the Inspector’s Report of 20 November 2019 and his decision letter of 14 January.