Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to revising upwardly the 1850 cut-off date for listed buildings being subject to greater selection, as per the general principles of listing relating to age and rarity.

The Principles of Selection for Listed Buildings set the criteria used to determine whether a building is of special architectural or historic interest. Currently, the Principles of Selection state that “from 1850 to 1945, because of the greatly increased number of buildings erected and the much larger numbers that have survived, progressively greater selection is necessary”. We do not currently have plans to revise this but continue to keep the Principles of Selection under review.