Housing and Regeneration Bill
12:00 pm
Andy Slaughter (PPS (Lord Jones of Birmingham Kt, Minister of State), Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform; Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush, Labour)
I am concerned by what you have said. I was not going to ask a question—I normally agree with what you say, Mr. Sampson—but you have just said that you believe that the two types of tenure, public housing and private rented housing, should come closer together. There have been bits of nibbling away at security of tenure in the public and RSL sector, and there are rumours, including in the context of the Bill, that that may continue. Could you make clear Shelter’s position on that? I hope that it is that you support secure tenancies and assured tenancies, in so far as they give that level of protection.