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The noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock, said she found it disconcerting that that was brought up by my noble friend, but she might also recognise that in her own local borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, there are 19,000 households on the waiting list. The latest figures for Watford, which the noble Baroness, Lady Thornhill, will be aware of, is 1,322 households waiting for housing from the local housing association; Watford does not provide direct housing support in terms of council housing. Some 16% of the entire housing stock across the whole UK is rented by people who were not born in the UK.