To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from which local authorities making proposals for future unitary structure was further information sought by her Department to assist with assessment in advance of the Government statement on 27 March 2007; if she will place in the Library the (a) questions that were presented to each local authority and (b) their responses; and if she will make a statement. (182428)

Further information was sought from all 26 authorities who submitted proposals in response to our invitation of 26 October. Details were placed on their websites by the relevant authorities. I will place information in the House Libraries in due course.