Mr. John-Mark McCafferty:

We are seeing in general that it is working overall and perhaps working better than I thought it might. As somebody said, it is a better match than, perhaps, I thought might happen. There were, and we have mentioned these already, the inter-local authority issues and I understand that these are being tackled currently. The likes of elected representatives intervening is probably part and parcel of a scheme with many moving parts to it that is just up and running. If there was some much longer-term scheme, we would probably have some permanent or longer-term intermediary agency that would assist tenants with the tenantin situ scheme.

This is an inevitable result of a new scheme where people must respond very quickly. The clock is ticking with a notice of termination. Otherwise, assuming that there is a 10% non-take-up, that represents a very high level of non-take-up. The corollary is a 90% level of take-up, which is high. That said, the proportion of successful tenant in situtransactions compared to the number of notices to quit that result in the end of a tenancy without a tenant in situstill represents a very small proportion. They are welcome and positive but the bigger picture is that many people have had to just try to find alternative accommodation, which is particularly challenging and is, arguably, more challenging than it has ever been.