Wellcome Trust Planning Application

HC Deb 19 November 1998 vol 319 cc888-9W

Mr. Lansley

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1) if he will publish the submissions made by his Department to(a) the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions and (b) the Inspector in respect of a planning application by the Wellcome Trust at Hinxton in South Cambridgeshire; [55424]

(2) when he plans to provide a substantive reply to the question tabled by the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire on 3 September (ref. 55424) on a planning application by the Wellcome Trust. [60456]

Mr. Mandelson

[holding answer 19 October 1998]: My Department has not made any submissions to either the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions or to the Inspector in respect of the Wellcome Trust planning application at Hinxton, Cambridgeshire.

Following the decision by my right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister to reopen thinquiry, my Department will be considering whether to submit views to the Inspector.