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Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill

We have been talking about housing. Amendment No. 207, which my noble friend Lord Hanningfield and I support, refers to ““a housing association””. I understand what the Minister has said in that housing associations go wider than the boundary that might be covered by the local agreement, but a registered social landlord would not be in that position. It is housing associations or private landlords who work with the local authority, and it is a worry that housing is not in this list anywhere, if the housing association cannot be put in. For all the reasons that we know, particularly over-crowding and homelessness, the targets that it may be necessary to introduce may be very real. It may require the agreement of a local housing association or a local registered social landlord to deal with that. Perhaps if we changed the words ““a housing association”” to ““a registered social landlord””, that would make it easier for the Minister to accept the amendment at a later stage.