§ Mr. WhiteTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions when he intends to make available an audit of how the recommendations made by the 18 policy action teams have been implemented. [147158]
§ Ms ArmstrongA report by the Social Exclusion Unit, "The National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal: Policy Action Team Audit" will be published tomorrow and copies will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses. Eighteen Policy Action Teams (PATs) were set up in 1998 to fast track policy development on some of the most intractable problems facing deprived neighbourhoods and had all reported by April 2000.
533WIt is a companion document to "A New Commitment to Neighbourhood Renewal: the National Strategy Action Plan" that was published on 15 January. The work and recommendations of the Policy Action Teams formed the foundation on which the National Strategy Action Plan is built.
Collectively, the PATs made almost six hundred recommendations, the majority of which are now part of Government policy. The document that will be published tomorrow reports on progress in implementing these recommendations and gives details about which Departments are responsible for ensuring their continued implementation.