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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to section 917 of Fixing the foundations: creating a more prosperous nation, published 10 July 2015, Cm 9098, what the scope is of those projects with an element of housing development which can be fast tracked through the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects regime.

We are committed to allowing nationally significant infrastructure projects with an element of housing to be consented under the Planning Act 2008. This will require amendments to primary legislation and information on the scope of the proposal will be set out in a future Bill.