§ Mr. BrakeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what is the number and surface area of business parks that have been built on(a) green-field land excluding Green Belt, (b) Green Belt land and (c) recycled land in each of the last 12 years by (i) county and (ii) region in England. [32855]
§ Mr. CabornThe information requested is not held centrally. Most decisions on planning applications for business park developments are taken by local planning authorities. They provide statistical returns of all major applications which they handle, in order to provide an overall picture of planning activity. These data do 699W not classify applications by location. It is, therefore, not feasible at the moment to assemble such information, except at disproportionate cost.