Written question asked by Lord Pickles (Conservative) on Tuesday, 17 October 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 19 October 2006. It was answered by Yvette Cooper (Labour) on Tuesday, 24 October 2006 on behalf of the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Planning Inspectorate

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many decisions of the Planning Inspectorate she has overturned in each year since 1996-97; and what proportion this represents of all inspectorate decisions in each year.

Answer

Figures are unavailable prior to 2002. A table containing the figures since 2002 can be seen as follows:

	(a) Decisions made by PINS (Number)	(b) Decisions called-in / recovered by Secretary of State (Number)	(c) Decisions where Secretary of State went against Inspector's recommendations (Number)	(d) Proportion of called-in/ recovered decisions(c/b) (Percentage)	(e) Proportion of all decisions (c/a) (Percentage)
2002-03	14,950	193	17	8.8	0.1
2003-04	18,194	331	32	9.6	0.2
2004-05	17,403	357	29	8.1	0.2
2005-06	21,493	445	36	8.0	0.2

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