Given that the Government, in its Planning and Infrastructure Bill, is seeking to disapply the current requirement for the Secretary of State to respond to any resolutions made by a committee in either House of Parliament, we recommend that the Government, in future, ensures that: a. Select Committees are provided with at least ten sitting weeks in which to consider future National Policy Statements and proposed amendments to an existing NPS, b. this period should never commence before the co...

Given that the Government, in its Planning and Infrastructure Bill, is seeking to disapply the current requirement for the Secretary of State to respond to any resolutions made by a committee in either House of Parliament, we recommend that the Government, in future, ensures that: a. Select Committees are provided with at least ten sitting weeks in which to consider future National Policy Statements and proposed amendments to an existing NPS, b. this period should never commence before the conclusion of the department’s related public consultation process, and c. Parliament has a period of at least ten sitting days, in which consideration of Type: recommendation | Number: 4 | Response status: partially_accepted Government response: Government agrees that Select Committees should be provided with sufficient time to comprehensively consider relevant updates to the NPSs. We also recognise that there is an urgent need to move at pace to deliver clean, homegrown energy to protect billpaye