An influential cross-party committee of MPs has demanded that housing secretary Robert Jenrick hand over all documents relating to his unlawful decision to approve a 1,500-home scheme being promoted by a Tory party donor.

Clive Betts, chair of the housing, communities and local government select committee, wrote to Robert Jenrick today requesting that he provide details of all correspondence, notes and advice from officials relating to PLP’s Westferry Printworks scheme in East London.

Jenrick’s January decision to approve the controversial scheme against the advice of a planning inspector, and just a day before a new planning charge would have been applied to it costing the developer as much as £50m, has already been quashed after Jenrick admitted “apparent bias” in the decision.

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