To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what representations he has received from Your Homes Newcastle on the funding for asbestos removal under the decent homes programme; and if he will place in the Library a copy of those representations. (318004)

Communities and Local Government Department has received no recent representations from Your Homes Newcastle on the funding for asbestos removal under the Decent Homes programme. However, their parent local authority, Newcastle City Council, as part of their ALMO bidding application in 2003, made a contingency allowance in their Building Cost Model for asbestos removal.