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Written question asked by Louise Haigh (Labour) on Tuesday, 17 October 2023, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 19 October 2023. It was answered by Huw Merriman (Conservative) on Monday, 23 October 2023 on behalf of the Department for Transport.


Transport: North of England

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of planning officers needed to approve plans for each of the Network North projects, broken down by region.

Answer

The schemes in Network North will navigate a variety of different consenting regimes depending on their size, scale, and location. However, we are committed to speeding up the delivery of our transport projects and the Government’s action plan for reforms to the planning process includes commitments to develop workforce strategies to address skills and capability gaps and providing capacity and capability funding to the planning system to provide additional resource if required.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
203064
Session
2022-23
Subjects
Planning authorities Staff Transport North of England
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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