Ms Caroline Timmons:

There is a Derelict Sites Act working group at the minute, which is examining what might need to happen on that. I believe that a report will come forward on this and any changes that might need to be made can be brought through at that stage. There does not appear at this stage to be anything huge that needs to be done but obviously anything that does need to be done can be brought forward. The CPO activation programme has a full guide in it as to how to use those powers. The Housing Agency has a property optimisation unit, which is available to advise local authorities, and is using the best practice from other local authorities on that.