Clause 11 - Section 204(4): appeals
Homelessness Bill
6:15 pm
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold, Conservative)
I should like to comment on the serious intention of the hon. Member for Bath, although his speech and his new clause are a long-winded way in which to amend section 202 of the Housing Act 1996. There is a more simple way of doing what has taken him a page and quarter of gobbledegook to do. If the word ``may'' in section 204(4) of the 1996 Act had been altered to ``must'', that would have eliminated the entire need for the hon. Gentleman's new clause. If the local authority had to provide accommodation during the period when an applicant was appealing against its review procedure, that would have had the same effect as the new clause. However, the hon. Gentleman is now about to tell me that I am wrong.