The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Rooker on 2014-06-10.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to move responsibility for planning policy to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Baroness Stowell of Beeston
No.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Rooker on 2014-06-10.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have plans to deregulate the planning system.
Baroness Stowell of Beeston
I refer the noble Lord to my Written Ministerial Statement of 10 June 2014, Official Report, Column WS40, which outlines the planning reforms that we have undertaken to date on housing, and the further reforms we are proposing.
In this session, we will also be implementing recommendations from the Red Tape Challenge and consult on some further technical changes on planning administration.
I also refer him to my Written Ministerial Statement of 16 June 2014, Official Report, Column WS79, on our proposals on brownfield land.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Rooker on 2014-06-10.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what evidence they have on the impact on the housing supply of taking planning decisions at the most local level.
Baroness Stowell of Beeston
I refer the noble Lord to my Written Ministerial Statement of 10 June 2014, Official Report, Column WS40, which comprehensively explains how our planning reforms, including the abolition of the last Administration’s top-down Regional Strategies, have increased housing starts to their highest level since 2007 and resulted in 216,000 homes being given planning permission in England in 2013-14.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Rooker on 2014-04-01.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they plan to implement the changes set out in sections 45 and 46 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010.
Lord Faulks
Implementation is already well underway. The point at which historic central government records are transferred to The National Archives is being reduced from 30 years to 20 years. This change is being implemented in a phased way over a ten period starting from 1 January 2013, with two years worth of records being transferred every year until transition is complete. This was implemented by The Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (Commencement No 7) Order 2012 (SI 2012 No. 3001) and The Public Records (Transfer to the Public Record Office) (Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2012 (SI 2012 No. 3028).
The Government intends to begin, from 2015, a similar ten-year transitional period for records transferred to 116 local places of deposit, subject to the outcome of further detailed work on costs and the impact to the local authority archive sector.