To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst of 21 July 2009, Official Report, columns 1655-6W, on the green belt, in which local authority areas regional spatial strategies have recommended a review of the areas which should be designated as green belt. (319323)

Regional spatial strategies (RSS) do not express any planning policies which refer to specific sites (local authority areas); they identify broad locations, which may be located in a local authority area or cross a number of local authority boundaries.