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172874

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Planning Permission: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, from which local authorities planning appeals were recovered in 2014.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Roberta Blackman-Woods
uin	220269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p>A planning recovery entails the appeal being decided by Ministers directly, rather than the Planning Inspectorate on behalf of the Secretary of State. A list is attached.</p><p> </p><p>As I noted in my answer of 16 January 2015, PQ UIN 220298, in 2013-14, just 0.9% of planning and enforcement appeals were decided by Ministers.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 21/01/2015 17:04:53 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis attachment 1 file name 220269 Blackman-Woods.docx title List of Local Authorities - Planning Appeals
tabling member	1501 label Biography information for Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods

172877

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Wind Power: Planning Permission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many planning appeals related to wind energy projects were recovered for a decision by the Secretary of State in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Roberta Blackman-Woods
uin	220296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2015 answer text <p>A recovery entails a planning appeal decision being made directly by Planning Ministers, rather than planning inspectors on behalf of the Secretary of State.</p><p> </p><p>Four appeals were recovered in 2010, five in 2011, 19 in 2012, 23 in 2013 and 11 in 2014.</p><p> </p><p>As outlined in previous Written Ministerial Statements, the recovery criteria was intentionally changed to consider recovering more appeals, following changes made to planning guidance to strengthen the protection of landscape and heritage assets.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 23/01/2015 14:09:03 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	1501 label Biography information for Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods

172878

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Planning Permission: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many recovered planning appeals he has upheld in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Roberta Blackman-Woods
uin	220297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>To assist the hon. Member, the attached table shows the figures for recovered appeals for the last ten years.</p><p> </p><p>To place these figures in context, in 2013-14, 15,982 planning and enforcement appeals were decided by planning inspectors, whilst just 149 appeals (0.9%) were decided by Ministers.</p><p> </p><p>Where an appeal is dismissed, the application is refused in line with the original decision by the local authority to reject the planning application (non-determination appeals excepted).</p><p> </p><p>The number of recovered appeals has increased in the last year in light of the intentionally revised recovery criteria (as explained to Parliament in previous Written Ministerial Statements) to consider recovering more appeals in relation to traveller sites in the Green Belt, and on renewable energy.</p><p> </p><p>All decisions are made with due process, based on the material considerations of the case.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 220298 question first answered 16/01/2015 14:47:40 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis attachment 1 file name 220297; 220298 Blackman-Woods.docx title Table of Planning Appeals
tabling member	1501 label Biography information for Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods

172879

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Planning Permission: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many recovered planning appeals he has refused in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Roberta Blackman-Woods
uin	220298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>To assist the hon. Member, the attached table shows the figures for recovered appeals for the last ten years.</p><p> </p><p>To place these figures in context, in 2013-14, 15,982 planning and enforcement appeals were decided by planning inspectors, whilst just 149 appeals (0.9%) were decided by Ministers.</p><p> </p><p>Where an appeal is dismissed, the application is refused in line with the original decision by the local authority to reject the planning application (non-determination appeals excepted).</p><p> </p><p>The number of recovered appeals has increased in the last year in light of the intentionally revised recovery criteria (as explained to Parliament in previous Written Ministerial Statements) to consider recovering more appeals in relation to traveller sites in the Green Belt, and on renewable energy.</p><p> </p><p>All decisions are made with due process, based on the material considerations of the case.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 220297 question first answered 16/01/2015 14:47:40 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis attachment 1 file name 220297; 220298 Blackman-Woods.docx title Table of Planning Appeals
tabling member	1501 label Biography information for Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods

172880

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Planning Permission: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many planning appeals have been recovered from local authorities which have no local plan or whose plan (a) dates from earlier than 2004 and (b) is not compliant with the National Planning Policy Framework; and how many such appeals resulted in a refusal decision.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Roberta Blackman-Woods
uin	220299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my answer to her today to PQ UIN 220269 which lists the local authorities in which appeals were recovered in the last year.</p><p> </p><p>The Planning Inspectorate maintains a national database of Local Plan progress, which is regularly updated. The data can be found at:<br><br><a href="http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/planning/planningsystem/localplans" target="_blank">http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/planning/planningsystem/localplans</a></p><p> </p><p>However, I would remind the hon. Member that appeals are recovered in line with the published recovery criteria; the status of the Local Plan itself may be totally unconnected to the decision to recover. In turn, planning appeal decisions must be taken in accordance with the development plan unless material considerations indicate otherwise.</p><p> </p><p>Appeal decisions will thus depend on the local circumstances of each individual case. In that context, I have not undertaken a detailed analysis of the underlying reasons for recovered appeal decisions, and cursory comparisons are likely to be misleading.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 220300 question first answered 21/01/2015 17:02:01 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1501 label Biography information for Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods

172881

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Planning Permission: Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many planning appeals have been recovered from local authorities which have an adopted local plan which (a) dates from later than 2004 and (b) is compliant with the National Planning Policy Framework; and how many such appeals resulted in a refusal decision.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Roberta Blackman-Woods
uin	220300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my answer to her today to PQ UIN 220269 which lists the local authorities in which appeals were recovered in the last year.</p><p> </p><p>The Planning Inspectorate maintains a national database of Local Plan progress, which is regularly updated. The data can be found at:<br><br><a href="http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/planning/planningsystem/localplans" target="_blank">http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/planning/planningsystem/localplans</a></p><p> </p><p>However, I would remind the hon. Member that appeals are recovered in line with the published recovery criteria; the status of the Local Plan itself may be totally unconnected to the decision to recover. In turn, planning appeal decisions must be taken in accordance with the development plan unless material considerations indicate otherwise.</p><p> </p><p>Appeal decisions will thus depend on the local circumstances of each individual case. In that context, I have not undertaken a detailed analysis of the underlying reasons for recovered appeal decisions, and cursory comparisons are likely to be misleading.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 220299 question first answered 21/01/2015 17:02:01 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1501 label Biography information for Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods

172882

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Planning Permission
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of homes planned for in development applications which were refused by the Secretary of State in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Roberta Blackman-Woods
uin	220301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>We have made no such estimate.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 16/01/2015 14:32:39 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1501 label Biography information for Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods

172883

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Quarrying: Redbridge
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions his Department has had with the London Borough of Redbridge on gravel extraction in Aldborough Hatch.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	220245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>Officials have had one recent conversation with the London Borough of Redbridge to obtain information for a correspondence reply to an hon. Member, on gravel extraction in the area.<br><br>At that point in time, there was no planning application for gravel extraction under consideration by the Council.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 19/01/2015 16:15:13 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

172884

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Broadband: Urban Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2014 to Question 218397, on broadband: urban areas, to which 28 cities his Department has written.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	220287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>The 28 cities invited to participate in the Connection Voucher Scheme are listed below.</p><p> </p><p>We have also invited the current 22 SuperConnected cities to continue with their connection voucher schemes for a further year.</p><p> </p><p>The final list of participating cities will be confirmed before the scheme goes live in April.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Liverpool</p></td><td><p>Dundee</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottingham</p></td><td><p>Glasgow</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sheffield</p></td><td><p>Swansea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sunderland</p></td><td><p>Chelmsford</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hull</p></td><td><p>Exeter</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Preston</p></td><td><p>Gloucester</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wolverhampton</p></td><td><p>Peterborough</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicester</p></td><td><p>Ipswich</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norwich</p></td><td><p>Middlesbrough</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Plymouth</p></td><td><p>Milton Keynes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Southampton</p></td><td><p>Reading</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stoke on Trent</p></td><td><p>Southend on Sea</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swindon</p></td><td><p>Bournemouth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stirling</p></td><td><p>Inverness</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 14/01/2015 08:54:56 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

172885

registered interest
date	09/01/2015
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Government Art Collection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much his Department has spent on the Government Art Collection in each year since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	220313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>The table below sets out how much the Department has spent on the Government Art Collection (GAC) since May 2010. I have included figures for 2009-10 for the Hon. Member’s background and wider understanding.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="3"><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Government Art Collection Administration Costs</p></td><td><p>GAC Collection Purchases</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£</p></td><td><p>£</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>1,027,077</p></td><td><p>323,464</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>954,237</p></td><td><p>208,527</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>923,619</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>942,712</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>937,770</p></td><td><p>116,985</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>There were no new purchases of artwork for the Collection in 2011-12 and 2012-13.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 14/01/2015 14:38:13 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant