To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what the implications are of his announcement of revised household projection figures on 29 March for the need for new housing developments in (a) Stevenage, (b) Devon, (c) West Sussex, (d) East Sussex, (e) Hertfordshire and (f) West Midlands. [80086]

As the Deputy Prime Minister said in his answer on 29 March 1999, Official Report, column 472, my Department will be writing to regional planning bodies setting out further information which may be relevant in the context of preparing regional planning guidance.