§ Mr. DrewTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions if he will make a statement on the management information systems used by "Foundations"; and when it is planned to be fully implemented.[9546]
§ Ms KeebleMy Department contracted "Foundations", the national co-ordinating body for home improvement agencies, to develop a single management information system to assist the monitoring and benchmarking of agencies' performance. The system has now been fully implemented and, on 20 September, "Foundations" distributed performance data for the year ended 31 March 2001 to all grant-funded agencies and their sponsoring local authorities.