To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment he has made of the implications for the use of wellbeing powers by local councils of the ruling of the Court of Appeal in the case of Risk Management Partners Limited v. Council of the London Borough of Brent and others; and if he will bring forward legislative proposals for a general power of competence for local councils. (282517)

We are still considering what steps, if any, may be appropriate in the light of this judgment.