To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 28 January 2008, Official Report, column 120W, on unitary councils, when she will place the information cited in the Library; if she will ensure that the information is placed in the Library before the relevant Statutory Instrument is considered in the House; if she will list the categories of information to be placed in the Library; and why there has been a delay in placing the information in the Library. (183838)

All the councils concerned placed on their websites details of the further information sought from them on their unitary proposals. There are a large number of separate documents involved and so I have first placed copies of the information in the Library for those proposals in relation to the statutory instruments that will be considered shortly in the House. This information falls into the following categories:

(1) the questions DCLG posed to the local authorities in February 2007;

(2) the written responses to those questions received in February 2007;

(3) notes of the meetings to discuss the questions;

(4) the further questions DCLG posed to the local authorities in March 2007; and

(5) the written responses to those questions received in March 2007.

I will place in the Library of the House similar information on the remaining proposals in due course and before the relevant statutory instruments are debated.