Baroness Featherstone – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Featherstone on 2016-07-11.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to call in the decision by Northumberland County Council to approve plans for an opencast coal mine at Highthorn in the light of recent government commitments to phase out the use of coal.

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

Members of the public and MPs have requested that this application is called in, and we are currently considering that request.