§ Mr. WatersonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions when he or any of his ministers last met the Executive Mayor of Hammersmith and Fulham; what the date was of that meeting; what was discussed at the meeting; and who else was present at the meeting. [98665]
§ Ms Beverley HughesMy right hon. Friend the Minister for Local Government and the Regions met my hon. Friends the Members for Ealing, Acton and114W Shepherd's Bush (Mr. Soley), for Hammersmith and Fulham (Mr. Coleman) and for Northampton, North (Ms Keeble) on 4 November to discuss local government reform, including local government finance and the ongoing review of possible alternatives to Standard Spending Assessments, asylum seekers and homelessness, and how these relate to Hammersmith and Fulham. The Executive Mayor, the First Deputy and the Chief Executive of Hammersmith and Fulham also attended and took part in the discussions.
I apologise that this information was not included in the answer I gave to the hon. Member on 11 November 1999, Official Report, column 699, in response to a similar question. The hon. Member will now know that I wrote to him on 17 November, as soon as the error became known, with the correct information and placed a copy of the letter in the Library of the House.