To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 17 December 2007, Official Report, column 1152W, on local government finance: participation, (1) whether the local ballots would be binding on the local authority under her proposals; and whether there would be a threshold number of ballots above which a decision would be valid; (182057)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 17 December 2007, Official Report, column 1152W.