Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had recent discussions with National Highways on the timeliness of responses to planning applications for which it is a statutory consultee.

National Highways have been working with the applicant and with the transport consultant to address questions on this development. The applicant has not yet provided National Highways with the information that they need to enable them to make a recommendation and I will write to my Hon Friend when they do so.