Ms Rose Wall:

There certainly is not anything wrong with addressing the housing situation that we are in, whether that is the provision of emergency accommodation, which should only be emergency short-term accommodation, or the provision of long-term stable social housing. Probably everybody here recognises that it is a good thing to try and address it. The devil then is in the detail in terms of how one goes about that. What we are saying here today is that we have real concerns about the proposals in the proposed Bill, partly because it may disentitle a large number of people who are currently entitled to long-term social housing support and move them into emergency provision or, potentially, into rough sleeping. That is the first problem.