To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Peterborough (Mr. Jackson) of 10 March 2009, Official Report, column 315W, on the New Dimension Programme, if he will place in the Library a copy of the report by NERA UK Ltd on the New Dimension Programme. (289629)

The report will be placed in the Library of the House shortly.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the FireGuard project. (292893)

The Fireguard Project Board, chaired by the Chief Fire Officers Association, assessed the technical and financial aspects of the project, including affordability. Firebuy, the national procurement body for the English Fire and Rescue Service, undertook the procurement process for the project at the request of 33 fire and rescue authorities, led by the Chief Fire Officers Association. This Department did not make any separate assessment of the project.