To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the (a) original budget for and (b) outturn cost of production of his Department’s report Getting it right, and righting the wrongs was. (284694)

The information is as follows.

(a) £100,000 was allocated to the independent Review of Redress in each of 2008-09 and 2009-10. This covered the full costs of the review, including production of the final report.

(b) Costs for the design, printing and typesetting of the “Getting it right and righting the wrongs” report and the accompanying practitioners’ toolkit were £23,046 excluding VAT.