Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question – answered at on 3 June 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports he has received on the number of lawful and unlawful refusals of Palestinian requests for building permits and master plans in the west bank; and if he will make a statement.
According to published statistics by the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, 91 of 1,624 Palestinian applications for building permits for Area C were approved between 2000 and 2007 and four of 444 were approved in 2010.
We continue to call on Israel to work together with the Palestinian Authority (PA) to allow more access and control of the PA over Area C.
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