§ Mr. PriskTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions if he will make a statement on his plans for implementing the Urban White Paper. [5498]
§ Ms KeebleThe implementation plan issued in March this year sets out how a wide range of initiatives across government are supporting the objectives of the Urban White Paper. This is available on my Department's website. Significant progress has already been made in delivering the measures listed in the plan. We are also working closely with towns and cities across the country to take forward the urban agenda. These efforts will feed into a proposed Urban summit in 2002 to assess progress in bringing about change and celebrate success, and a State of the Cities report in 2005.
§ Mr. PriskTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions how many recommendations of the Urban Task Force report entitled "Towards an Urban Renaissance" have been implemented since it was published. [5499]
§ Ms KeebleThe Government have endorsed the principles behind all of the recommendations in Lord Rogers' report and in the large majority of cases have accepted them either in full or in part. We have set out our response to each recommendation in the Annexe to the Urban White Paper.