This is an operational matter for the Audit Commission and I have asked the chief executive of the Audit Commission to respond to the hon. Member direct.
Letter from Steve Bundred, dated 8 July 2009:
Your Parliamentary question on what plans the Audit Commission has for the rebranding of its comprehensive area assessment programme has been passed to me for reply.
The Audit Commission, Care Quality Commission, HMIs Prisons, Probation and Constabulary, and Ofsted, set out in our published Framework document our aim to develop a user-friendly reporting system for comprehensive area assessments.
The Framework states that: ‘CAA is an important part of assessing and reporting on how well public money is spent, and making sure that local public bodies are accountable to the public for their service quality and impact.’
We are currently developing a user-friendly format for the reporting of the assessment results. We will be branding our dedicated CAA website ‘oneplace’.
The public launch of the ‘oneplace’ website, delivered through Directgov, will be in early December. We began to communicate ‘oneplace’ through our presence at the recent Local Government Association (LGA) conference in Harrogate.
If you would like a more detailed briefing on our work in this area and the ‘oneplace’ website, please let me know.
A copy of this letter will be placed in Hansard.