Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the strategy set out in his Department's paper, Creating the conditions for integration, published on 21 February 2012, remains the strategy of his Department.

My Department remains fully committed to the approach to creating an integrated society set out in "Creating the Conditions for Integration". As detailed in the report, integration is achieved when neighbourhoods, families and individuals come together on issues that matter to them. As such, we focus on supporting shared activities to bring people together to enable strong communities where people feel they belong. We continue to support projects based on this approach, such as the community-based English language programme which enables isolated adults to learn English, and the Near Neighbours campaign, which brings together diverse faith communities to help them improve their local neighbourhoods.