To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate (a) her Department and (b) the Lifting the Burdens Task Force has made of the cost to local authorities of publishing statutory notices. (191655)

The 2006 Cabinet Office report ‘Informing the Public in the multimedia age’ approximated that the annual cost of publishing statutory notices could be up to £30 million.

The Lifting the Burdens Task Force have not made any estimate of the cost of publishing statutory notices.