To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what representations she has received on the effects of the introduction of steady-state contracts on charities providing supported sheltered housing and care; and if she will make a statement. (76254)

We continue to receive representations about a wide range of issues relating to the Supporting People Programme. This includes the 1,000 plus responses to the recent Supporting People consultation which ran between 15 November 2005 and the end of March 2006.

A number of these representations did contain references to new Supporting People contracts.