Member

All councils should be sending notices to receiving boroughs—I am not claiming for a single second that all councils do this; I know they do not and that is a problem in itself—and all councils do, because the money depends on it, send notifications to the Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government. We are talking about a really expensive service here. In London we spend £4 million every day putting these families in temporary accommodation. I am sure most Members who have seen this accommodation will know that it is a terrible waste of taxpayers’ money, but we need to ensure that it is spent properly and safely, and that people know where the families are living and that they get whatever support they can.