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Homelessness

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 21 March 2016.

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Photo of Teresa Pearce Teresa Pearce Shadow Minister (Housing) 2:30, 21 March 2016

Last Wednesday the Chancellor announced money to support the homeless and reduce rough sleeping, but the Treasury has said that it is not extra money, but money from the Department for Communities and Local Government’s existing capital budget, which was announced in the autumn statement. So we have an ever growing national crisis of homelessness, no solution at all to the root causes, and no extra money. Is this not yet another example of a deeply unfair Budget from a deeply flawed Chancellor?

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