To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether his Department will revise the code of guidance on homelessness procedures to ensure that disabled people who are in residential or hospital care and who wish to have a home of their own are accepted as homeless by their local housing authority.

No. Health authorities and social services authorities may negotiate nomination arrangements with local housing authorities or housing associations but it cannot be right to give their ex-patients an automatic right to jump the queue for subsidised housing.