To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment he has made of the likely effects of the recent judgement of the Court of Appeal in the case of Risk Management Partners United v Council of the London Borough of Brent and others on the establishment of new joint working service ventures. (284007)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) on 30 June 2009, Official Report, column 196W.