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Housing and Regeneration Bill

I welcome that further explanation. At this juncture, I want to make a few points. The amendment refers not to an enormous number of potential tenants but to someone who has actually applied. It is not intended to be everyone who, if they thought about it, might have applied and been rejected. To answer a point that was not quite made, I understand the desirability of not having a system that allows someone to make a quick buck by applying where there is no hope of being allocated housing, but I should have thought that the fairly full provisions that come under the heading of compensation—10 full clauses—form an adequate safeguard for how individual claims, including claims of this sort, might be dealt with. I agree absolutely, of course, that enforcement generally is desirable, but it does not assist the individual. I look forward to hearing further from the noble Baroness and I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Clause 237 agreed to. Clauses 238 to 240 agreed to. Clause 241 [Warning]: