Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 19 November 2012.
Chris Kelly
Conservative, Dudley South
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what external policy research his Department has commissioned in each of the last six years; which organisation was commissioned to provide each such piece of research; and what the cost of each such piece of research was.
Brandon Lewis
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Communities and Local Government
The information can be accurately collated only at disproportionate costs.
Notwithstanding, published research reports can be found on my Department's website:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/corporate/researchand statistics/research1/
This includes a significant amount of research commissioned by the last administration that was otherwise unpublished, but which this Government have published in the interests of transparency.
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