Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many planning applications were called in by the Secretary of State with responsibility for planning in (1) 2015, (2) 2016, (3) 2017, (4) 2018, and (5) 2019.
These figures are published as part of the Planning Inspectorate’s statistical releases. For the calendar years requested, the figures were as follows:
2015 - 26
2016 - 14
2017 - 18
2018 - 7
2019 - 7