§ Mr. YeoTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions when he will announce the conclusions of his Department's review of the Code of Best Practice for telecommunications prior approval procedures. [52804]
§ Mr. RaynsfordThe working group of local authority and telecommunications industry representatives who have been considering the effectiveness of my Department's Code of Best Practice for telecommunications prior approval procedures as applied to mast/tower development have made representations on a variety of issues arising from the current telecommunications planning controls. We are giving careful consideration to the representations made by the working group, and to those received more generally, and expect to announce our conclusions this week.