Ms ?ine Stapleton:

It is a very good point and we have discussed the concern around the proportion of own-build construction at both the local authority and AHB level at this committee before. The policy objective is very much to bring that up. We are doing a lot of work with those local authorities in terms of any barriers or hurdles that might be impacting on the acceleration of their programmes. The resources that have been given and are now in place are really instrumental. We also have a number of those local authorities in the accelerated delivery programme and using modern methods of construction which I hope would accelerate delivery. There are quarterly technical meetings with the team on my side and each local authority that explore these issues.