To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar of 10 December 2007, Official Report, column 147W, on local authorities: disclosure of information, if she will place in the Library a copy of the guidance issued to the regional assemblies in March 2006. (182885)

I have arranged for copies of ‘Guidance on the General Principles of Designation of Voluntary Regional Assemblies’, issued in March 2006, to be placed in the Library of the House.