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official nameMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

short labelMHCLG

govuk categoryMinisterial department

govuk urlgov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-hous

headquarters2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF, United Kingdom; postcode SW1P 4DF; lat 51.495868, lng -0.129786 (address: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-housing-communities-local-government — "2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF, United Kingdom"; coordinates: https://api.postcodes.io/postcodes/SW1P4DF)

parent (as of 2026-10-28)HM Government (ministerial department; no parent department). MHCLG "is a ministerial department, supported by 22 agencies and public bodies".

previous parent / parent changedn/a for the department. Functions changed on 22 July 2026: "Local economic growth and devolution strategy" moved from MHCLG to No.10 North in the Office for the Prime Minister and Cabinet; "The Office for Equality and Opportunity will move to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)". Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/machinery-of-government-changes-fact-sheet (published 22 July 2026, updated 27 July 2026).

blurbThe housing, planning and local government department; it runs the planning AI programme (Extract and the Augmented Planning Decisions prototype), the Local AI team for councils, and the PropTech Innovation Fund, and sponsors the Planning Inspectorate, Homes England and the Building Safety Regulator.

website still shows old brandingno for the department page. But the i.AI site (https://ai.gov.uk/) still says "The incubator for AI (i.AI) sits within the Department for Science Innovation and Technology", and the June 2026 Extract press release is still filed under the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology as primary publisher. The Local AI blog (16 March 2026) is labelled "2024 to 2026 Starmer government".

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17Shown as gaps, never filled in by guesswork. Supplement 1 (the second pass) closed some; they are listed below.

Blocked URLs (permission not granted in time; not retried): https://mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/12/extract-using-ai-to-unlock-historic-planning-data/ (2025 Extract post); https://www.localdigital.gov.uk/ failed once via the non-www address (the www address later loaded). The LGA AI Hub main page https://www.local.gov.uk/our-support/cyber-digital-and-technology/artificial-intelligence-hub was blocked (see Page 2 Gaps). — Closed by Supplement 1: "Blocked URLs … https://mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/12/extract-using-ai-to-unlock-historic-planning-data/ (2025 Extract post)" (S1 GOV-MHCLG-003 (function, established, system); S3 mhclg People and Past events; S4 2.2 and 2.4. The post names no trial councils.)
The hourly web-fetch allowance ran out at about 12:27 UTC after the MHCLG pages were gathered; Page 2 fetching resumed after 13:00 UTC.
Extract launch date conflict: ai.gov.uk says "On 4 June 2026, we launched Extract to all local councils in England"; the MHCLG blog (17 June 2026) says "Today we have announced that Extract is now live" and the press release is dated 16 June 2026 with body text "today (Wednesday 17 June)". Recorded as June 2026 with 17 June as the public announcement.
No ATRS record exists for Extract, Augmented Planning Decisions, Local Transcribe or the MHCLG AI Gateway as of 28 October 2026 (all four register pages scanned). The MHCLG filter on the register URL did not apply; records were found by scanning all 154.
The "Building Height and Cladding tool" named in the task appears on the register as "MHCLG: Safer Greener Buildings Building Image Recognition Tool"; the record is dated 28 April 2025 on the page and 29 May 2025 in the register list.
Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025: no section heading mentions data or digital; the "digital provisions" named in the task could not be found in the contents list. Royal Assent date (18 December 2025) rests on one page that does not label it as such. The planning data standards regulations (SI 2026/420) were not opened.
The December 2024 NPPF itself was not opened; the data-centre and AI Growth Zone wording was read in the September 2026 Framework, which says it replaces the December 2024 one.
Procurement Act 2023 commencement: the 24 February 2025 date comes from the PPN collection page's wording about when PPNs apply; the Act's own commencement order was not opened.
Building Safety Regulator: previous parent (HSE) not verified on the pages opened; the "single construction regulator" is a planned successor (consultation outcome July 2026) and its body name and date were not found.
Minister responsible for AI in local government: the March 2026 Local AI blog names "Minister Dixon"; no minister of that name is on the MHCLG list on 28 October 2026 and the current holder of the brief was not identified.
Tom Smith's current post (Director for AI and Advanced Analytics, April 2025) was not re-verified.
Local Digital Fund: no amounts or AI project list found on pages opened (https://www.localdigital.gov.uk/fund/ not opened). "AI in local government" guidance from MHCLG/GDS as a single document was not found; the nearest items are the Local AI responsible-AI workstream (playbook in development) and the LGA hub.
HM Land Registry AI work (it is listed under MHCLG) not researched; consultation closing dates for the 27 October 2026 HMLR consultations and the October 2026 MHCLG consultations not read.
Outcome of the "end of summer" 2026 decision on extending Augmented Planning Decisions to further LPAs not found.
Homes England and the Regulator of Social Housing: no AI content on their GOV.UK pages; their own websites were not opened.
Google Cloud blog and DeepMind blog on the planning prototype not opened (vendor sources; not needed as primary pages sufficed).
Secretary of State: the 25 March 2026 London housebuilding release names "Housing Secretary Steve Reed"; the MHCLG page on 28 October 2026 lists Angela Rayner as Secretary of State. The date of the change was not found.

Closed by Supplement 1 (1)

"Blocked URLs … https://mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/12/extract-using-ai-to-unlock-historic-planning-data/ (2025 Extract post)" — S1 GOV-MHCLG-003 (function, established, system); S3 mhclg People and Past events; S4 2.2 and 2.4. The post names no trial councils.

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