{"value":{"id":1781069,"askingMemberId":5100,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-03-04T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-03-06T00:00:00","uin":"35438","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 18 February 2025 to Question 25797 on Tree Preservation Orders: Bedfordshire, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of keeping a centralised national record of Tree Protection Orders.","answeringBodyId":7,"answeringBodyName":"Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4520,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-03-12T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Tree Preservation Orders safeguard individual trees or groups of trees of particular value to local amenity.</p><p>Local planning authorities have the principal responsibility for applying these protections effectively.</p><p>The government has no plans at present to create a central record of their decisions, but we will keep the matter under review.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Tree Preservation Orders: Bedfordshire","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1781069","method":"GET"}]}