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Speaking in the House of Lords on 10 December 2024

Debate

Housing (Right to Buy) (Limits on Discount) (England) Order 2024

Contribution

That is quite a comment on the record of his party in government in recent years. Homelessness indeed should have no place in this country and the level of homelessness is very troubling. There are 123,000 households and 159,000 children in temporary accommodation. Council spending on temporary accommodation reached £2.29 billion last year, which the National Audit Office said recently is “unsustainable”—it is unsustainable.

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