§ Mr. George Howarth, supported by Mr. Clive Soley, Mr. Joe Benton, Mr. Robert N. Wareing, Mr. Edward O'Hara, Mr. Dennis Turner, Mr. Ian McCartney, Mr. David Clelland, Ms. Clare Short and Mr. William O'Brien, presented a Bill to establish a limit to the period during which homeless people may be accommodated in bed and breakfast accommodation to enable local authorities to make use of accumulated capital receipts in order to provide additional low cost housing for rent; to enable local authorities to finance private sector leasing arrangements for housing homeless people by restoring the provision for a separate allowance within housing revenue accounts; and for connected purposes: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time on Friday 25 January and to be printed. [Bill 48.]