To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what plans she has to review the operation and effectiveness of the home information pack scheme.

We continue to keep the implementation of Home Information Packs (HIPs) under review in light of market conditions. An evaluation of the HIPs programme is currently planned for 2010 by updating "The HIPs Baseline Research Report", published in January 2007 and which is available on our website at:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/housing/hipbaselineresearch

We will keep the timing of this evaluation under review in order that it should take place after the housing market has returned to more normal conditions and to enable the identification of the impacts of HIPs separately from wider housing market effects.