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Housing and Regeneration Bill

I am grateful to the Minister for her offer to keep me informed; I shall take advantage of it. I hope that the review will include evidence from members of the refuge movement of their experience of dealing with people—mainly women—in this situation. To answer the point made by the noble Earl and the noble Baroness, of course I appreciate the demands on social housing and that not everyone can be a priority. However, the amendment would have the benefit of freeing-up refuge places. Some problems occur—I do not want to refer to ““silting up””, which sounds so impersonal and unkind—that are caused by people not being able to move on because they do not have accommodation to go to. Of course, if they were able to move on, that would help others in turn. So there is an answer to the point, which might not be the case with other currently non-priority groups. I do not know whether the noble Baroness is yet in a position to say whether an end date is in view for the review. If there is, perhaps we could hear about it now. If not, I understand that it is work in progress and it is too soon to say.