Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government for what reason the Local Authority Business Growth Incentive funding scheme funding has been reduced to £50 million for 2010-11; and whether the funds previously allocated to the programme are to be transferred to another programme.
Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment has been made of progress in the operation of two-tier pathfinders; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report by the Office for Public Management consultancy, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Cardiff Business School on two-tier pathfinders.
Andrew Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will place in the Library a copy of the underlying wage data (the ASHE Dataset) used as the basis of the calculation for the area cost adjustment for the most recent three years.
Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate his Department has made of the number of local authorities which publish a weekly municipal newspaper.
Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which (a) individuals and (b) organisations responded to his Department's consultation on the Code of Conduct on Local Authority Publicity.