§ Mrs. Chalkerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many planning appeals have been received by his Department in each of the last four years; how many planning appeals inspectors there have been in each of the last four years; how many appeals have waited longer than six months, 12 months and 18 months to be heard in each of the last four years; and what has been the cost of appeals in each of the last four years.
§ Mr. Guy Barnett14,408 planning appeals were received by my department in 1972, 18,326 in 1973, 13,324 in 1974 and 11,690 in 1975.
At the end of 1972 my Department had 173 inspectors, 216 in 1973, 222 in 1974 and 185 at the end of 1975. Not all of these inspectors were engaged exclusively on planning appeals.
I regret that the other information is not available.