Member

I know that the Government feel unable to accept the amendment at this time, but I hope they understand the spirit in which it is laid down and the importance that the all-party parliamentary group for households in temporary accommodation attaches to these recording factors. I am pleased that the Minister has agreed that she and the other Departments will look at this in a timely fashion, because we cannot wait. Something terrible may well happen, and I do not want to feel that it is on my conscience, or any of our consciences, that we could have done something to prevent it from happening. I fully appreciate that the only way this problem will really be sorted is by building more houses, but one important small step is to ensure that the schools attended by homeless children know that those children are in temporary accommodation, and that their GPs and their health visitors also know.