Ms Catherine Comer:

Currently how it happens, and it will facilitate an extension, is the local authority assesses the person in terms of homelessness and then it is done through the local authority which then passes on to the Housing Agency. Then it depends; we did not want to restrict it so much that if schemes change outside of this it could not be facilitated. I am not sure if we should be too prescriptive in this legislation on how to do it but we do state that the intention is that it can interact administratively with whatever scheme is there.