Planning Permission

Robert Neill
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Meriden of 5 May 2009, Official Report, column 141W, on planning permission, what the agreed completion date is of the core strategy of each local planning authority.

Mr. Ian Austin
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Wright) to the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) of 14 May 2009, Official Report, column 1006W, on this issue in relation to local development frameworks.