To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the net cost was to public funds of the 2006 Sustainable Communities Conference organised by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. (86796)

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister did not organise a 2006 Sustainable Communities Conference. The Local Government Association organised a Sustainable Communities Conference in Birmingham, 13-15 February 2006 and officials from the Department for Communities and Local Government did attend.