To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 14 May 2008, Official Report, column 1636W, on the Interreg Programme, if she will place in the Library a copy of the updated edition of the INTERACT Handbook that was produced for the Interinstitutional Conference on the European Grouping of Territorial Co-operation, held in Brussels in June 2008. (217823)

I have placed a copy of the updated INTERACT Handbook on the European Grouping of Territorial Co-operation in the Library of the House.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 14 May 2008, Official Report, column 1636W, on the Interreg Programme, whether bodies set up under the provisions of European Grouping of Territorial Co-operation Regulations 2007, with a registered office in the United Kingdom, will be a public authority for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. (217824)

For the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act, bodies with a registered office in the United Kingdom set up under the provisions of the European Grouping of Territorial Co-operation Regulations 2007 are not designated as public authorities.