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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to section 9.15 of HM Treasury's policy paper, Fixing the foundations: creating a more prosperous nation, published on 10 July 2015, Cm 9098, what steps he is taking to ensure proposals for automatic planning permission on brownfield sites enable local authorities to provide for adequate infrastructure in such applications.

We will publish details about how the policy will operate when the Housing Bill is introduced. This will include how further technical details will be agreed, and arrangements for securing essential infrastructure and design quality.