Written questions

Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission

Commons · Question 71457 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 8 Sep 2025

Question

Asked by David Simmonds

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2025 to Question HL8772 on Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission, through what mechanism her Department had access to the unredacted drawings.

Answer

Answered by Dan Jarvis, 8 Sep 2025

It would not be appropriate to comment in detail on issues of national security, but as set out in the written representations by the Home Secretary and the Foreign Secretary to the Planning Inspectorate, we have carefully considered the breadth of nation...