Member

Then we have housing associations. The cry goes up that rents are too high and we must have more social housing. In terms of housing associations and social housing, however, the effect of increasing the costs on often hard-working and very stretched people is to make maintenance charges higher when people cannot afford the increases in rent which are arising from other costs as well. Therefore, I think both Amendments 4 and 5 are extremely sensible. I look forward to them being tabled at Report so we can have an opportunity to vote on them.