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Planning Permission: Impact Assessments

Asked by Kevin HollinrakeConservativeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled Answered 19 June 2025UIN 58770

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 30 May 2025 to Question 51874 on Planning Permissions: Impact Assessment, if she will publish the equality impact assessment produced for each of the changes listed.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook

There is no legal duty to publish equality impact assessments.

The impact assessments relating to revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework on 12 December 2024 can be found here.

The Secretary of State complied with her public sector equality duty (PSED) under s149 of the Equality Act 2010 in issuing the planning practice guidance updates.

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