To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government when she expects the implementation of recommendations arising from the Review of Sub-National Economic Development and Regeneration to be completed. (210615)

The Review of Sub-National Economic Development and Regeneration was completed and published in July 2007. In March 2008, my Department, with the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, published ‘Prosperous Places: Taking Forward the Review of Sub-National Economic Development and Regeneration’. This sets out and seeks views by 20 June 2008 on proposals for implementing certain conclusions of the Review. The Government intend to bring forward legislation at the earliest opportunity.