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Housing and Regeneration Bill

I agree with my hon. Friend. In Committee, when we were discussing the establishment of this important organisation, he repeatedly offered to take the amendments away to consider them, and I am very pleased that they have returned to the House in their current form. Does he agree, however, that it is unfortunate that, largely because of what the Opposition were doing, we devoted almost all our time to this issue and did not spend enough time discussing the Tenant Services Authority? I feel that we could have focused more on the empowerment of tenants, and I hope that we shall move on to the subject swiftly this evening.