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Housing and Regeneration Bill

You would not be able to read this, but thank you. Shelter, which has promoted these amendments, makes the important point that family intervention tenancies should not be used as a form of punishment for anti-social families. It talks about its experience—I am so sorry; my cough must be really irritating for everyone—in its projects where it has come across very variable standards, and argues for the need to safeguard against that. If the Committee will forgive me, I hope that the amendments will speak for themselves. My explanations are very abbreviated. The third amendment would protect families living in such tenancies from being unfairly evicted. All these amendments are more flexible than those that were tabled in the Commons. I hope therefore that the Minister can assist in responding. I apologise again for my cough, now and for the whole afternoon. I beg to move.