A question on #PlanningAuthorities #SouthDerbyshire tabled by Samantha Niblett on 28-01-2025 has been answered by Matthew Pennycook.

Heading: Planning Authorities: South Derbyshire
Question ID: 1759497
UIN: 27056
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-01-28
Asking Member ID: 5150
Asking Member display name: Samantha Niblett
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Asking Member Twitter reference: Samantha Niblett
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Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made the adequacy of the number of local authority planning officers in South Derbyshire to help support the Government's wider planning reform
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Date answered: 2025-02-03
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Answering Member ID: 4520
Answering Member display name: Matthew Pennycook
Answering Member handle: mtpennycook
Answering Member Twitter reference: @mtpennycook
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Answer text: While it is for individual local authorities to make their own assessments of their workforce, the government appreciate that planning departments across the country are experiencing challenges with recruitment, retention, and skills gaps and that in many...
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Answering body ID: 7
Answering body name: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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