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Housing and the Credit Crunch

Does the hon. Gentleman accept that many tenants are rather pleased that the new authority is taking the time and trouble to listen to what they think? When it puts its monitoring arrangements in place to monitor what standards have been achieved by housing associations, arm's length management organisations and others, it will surely want to ensure that those monitoring arrangements are worked out so that the tenants' view of the standard of service that they are getting is reflected. That is its core mission, and I think that it is going about things from the start in a very admirable way.