To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 21 October 2008, Official Report, columns 227-28W, on departmental non-departmental public bodies, if she will provide the equivalent information for all advisory non-departmental bodies with which funding has been agreed with her Department in 2008 to 2011. (231210)

The Department currently sponsors five advisory non-departmental public bodies as follows:

Advisory Panel for the Beacons Scheme: www.beacons.idea.gov.uk

Advisory Panel on Standards for Planning Inspectorate: www.apos.gsi.gov.uk

Building Regulations Advisory Committee: www.communities.gov.uk/brac

National Community Forum: www.communities/communityempowerment/whatweare/ncf/

National Housing and Planning Advice Unit: www.communities.gov.uk/nhpau

I refer the hon. Member to the Department's publication ‘Public Bodies 2007’, which is available via our website at:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/corporate/publicbodies2007

This year's publication will be available by the end of November 2008.