Mr. Graham Doyle:

This committee has repeatedly highlighted the level of spend on programmes such as the housing assistance payment, HAP, and the rental accommodation scheme, RAS. The focus in Housing for All is to provide new social homes through our capital programmes, in particular, to reduce the reliance on those schemes over time. Those schemes have been necessary due to the time needed to ramp up those capital spending programmes, particularly on social housing. That is the main activity we are focused on and Housing for All is focused on that. We brought about a number of ways to keep the pressure on ourselves and our delivery partners to keep delivering new-build social housing in particular to reduce reliance on those schemes over time.