To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the area based grant (ABG) was for the City of Newcastle in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11 with its component grants; and what the predecessor grants were for ABG for 2007-08. (189536)

I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I have him on 25 February 2008, Official Report, columns 1226-27W.