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Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 26 November 2025

Debate

Domestic Abuse: Emergency Accommodation

Contribution

My Lords, victims of domestic abuse can fail to qualify to bid for a permanent home because of debt issues often not of their own making. Families and children across the country can be trapped in temporary accommodation because of debt accumulated by the abuser. Should there not be a national rule whereby coerced debt should be excused to help abused families out of the debt trap and into a permanent home?

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