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Homelessness Reduction Bill

Proceeding contribution from Philip Davies (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Friday, 28 October 2016. It occurred during Debate on bills on Homelessness Reduction Bill.

My hon. Friend will be delighted to know that I support his Bill, and it is good to see that MPs can turn up on a Friday when a Bill is genuinely popular and important to Members of Parliament. Will he confirm that the Bill will stop some of the perverse incentives that I saw when I volunteered for St George’s Crypt in Leeds, where local authorities were turning away people who did not have a drug or alcohol addiction because people with those addictions were seen as a priority? The people who were turned away felt that they were effectively being told that if

they wanted to be housed, they had to develop a drug or alcohol addiction. Will his Bill stop those perverse incentives?

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Reference

616 c544 

Session

2016-17

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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