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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 9 September 2025

Debate

Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Contribution

Secondly, they would explicitly require that this calculation includes those who are statutorily homeless, those sleeping rough, those in overcrowded housing, those on housing waiting lists and those who are homeless but not recorded in the statutory data. My noble friend Lady Whitaker would want me to include those who are homeless but not statutorily recorded in their area, including Gypsies and Travellers who, finding no authorised sites in which to live or having been evicted from unauthorised sites, are homeless. To ensure provision in their traditional homes would right an injustice.

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