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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 20 June 2011.

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Photo of Nick Raynsford Nick Raynsford Labour, Greenwich and Woolwich 2:30, 20 June 2011

I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.

On waste, will the Secretary of State confirm that his Department spent £1.3 million in the first four months of this year on legal advice and consultancy? How much of that was attributable to the consequences of his unlawful decision to try to abolish regional spatial strategies?