Departmental Correspondence Mr. Shepherd To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform when he plans to reply to the letter of 20 February 2009 from the editors of the Birmingham Post, the Birmingham Mail and the Coventry Telegraph on his Department's response to the communiqué from the West Midlands auto industry summit. Ian Pearson [holding answer 27 February 2009]: The Secretary of State has responded.