To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list any current proposals for housing action trusts still under discussion.

Discussions are proceeding with the Council and tenants in the London borough of Waltham Forest and Hull city council are consulting tenants about the council's proposal for a housing action trust for the North Hull estate.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how much money in total his Department has spent on promoting housing action trusts.

No expenditure has been incurred on promoting housing action trusts. In pursuance of the statutory duty under the Housing Act 1988 to hold a ballot of tenants and the need to ensure that the tenants are fully informed of the proposals expenditure of £93,000 has been incurred relating to information material and to ballots.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list any proposals for housing action trusts which have been the subject of a ballot of tenants and the results.

The Electoral Reform Society ran ballots on behalf of the Secretary of State in Sunderland and Southwark.The results were as follows: