To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when she expects to publish the working paper on developing the local government leisure services market. (122976)

We expect to publish the working paper by the end of March 2007.

This is a working paper which was developed in the context of the report published last November, ‘Developing the local government services market to support the long-term strategy for local government’. The overall conclusions from the working paper are already published in that report.