Clause 260
Housing and Regeneration Bill
10:30 am
Andrew George (St Ives, Liberal Democrat)
Good morning, Mr. Gale. It is a pleasure to introduce amendments Nos. 103 and 104, which aim to restrict the use of family intervention tenancies to circumstances in which a recognised family intervention project approved by the Secretary of State or Welsh Ministers provides behaviour support services. Without the amendments, the general reference to behaviour support services in subsection (3)(b) may enable landlords to use such highly insecure tenancies to claim that they are providing intensive support services, when the nature and quality of those services are not subject to scrutiny. Two separate but identical amendments are necessary because the clause contains separate provisions for secure council tenancies and assured housing association or private tenancies.
I hope that the Minister accepts that the purpose behind the amendments is to ensure that action is taken in a proper and measured way. Given the pressure on time, I will not elaborate unnecessarily and I look forward to the Minister’s response.