Ms Caroline Timmons:

The serviced sites fund was initially made available for the provision of infrastructure. It started life as a very different fund. It was not until we put the affordable housing fund in place that local authorities in particular could use that to subsidise the overall cost of affordable housing. We needed the Act and provisions to be in place to have the type of equity scheme we have in place for people now. That is one of the reasons. We did not have all of the machinery in place. Now that we do, we can see the delivery start to ramp up. Having waited for us to the put the legislation in place, the local authorities had to learn how to deliver under the new affordable housing fund, and the legislation that was in place. That has taken some time, but it has really got there over the past year. I have seen huge progress made by local authorities in understanding that.