To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when her Department will announce which unitary council and local government restructuring bids should be implemented in the first wave of such restructuring. (152672)

I refer the hon. Member to my written statement of 25 July 2007, Official Report, columns 68WS.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will place in the Library a copy of the representations from the Chief Secretary to the Treasury to her Department on the costs of local government restructuring. (152944)

It is not Government policy to release cabinet committee correspondence.