To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to the written ministerial statement of 16 July 2008, Official Report, columns 17-19WS, on the Housing Challenge document, if she will place in the Library a copy of the letter sent to regional assembly chairs on the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit's advice. (252432)

The letters sent in July 2008 by the Minister for Housing and Planning to the chairs of the regional assemblies concerning the NHPAU's advice have been deposited in the Library.

These letters were published on the 16 July 2008 and are available online:

www.communities.gov.uk/publications/planningandbuilding/guidanceregionalstrategy