Homelessness

The hon. Lady is making a powerful speech. Does she agree that we should also be concerned about ...

I thank the hon. Lady for that intervention. I completely agree that a compassionate approach is ...

Is my hon. Friend as concerned as I am that youth homelessness is one of the largest factors cont...

Yes, I agree. In fact, joined-up thinking between Departments is a theme that I will return to la...

The hon. Lady is making a powerful speech. Does she agree that it is important to tackle homeless...

I am indeed getting to that point, at which I will be very generous in my comments.

I am su...

I congratulate the hon. Lady on securing this debate. Southwark Council, one of the local authori...

I absolutely agree. Indeed, I will make that point myself later. We need to ensure that the resou...

Will the hon. Lady therefore welcome the £28 million investment in the Housing First initiative, ...

I will, of course. Any money in this area is a good thing, but I do have a concern about the supp...

Surely building more houses can help to reduce homelessness. Does the hon. Lady welcome the £9 bi...

I do welcome it, although I worry. As the hon. Gentleman will know, given that his constituency i...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I have to make some progress. I am sorry, but I am mindful of what Madam Deputy Speaker said.

The hon. Lady is making an incredibly powerful speech, and a lot of personal commitment has clear...

I am afraid that that is not what this debate is about; I am going to move on.

The NAO has ...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Oxford West and Abingdon (Layla Moran). I welcome ...

This very week in Taunton Deane, police are meeting with the chamber of commerce, along with heal...

That is absolutely critical and very much in the spirit of what I am outlining here.

The 94...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the only way of providing properly affordable homes is for loc...

That is one part of the mix of a solution. The way forward is through a whole range of options th...

Does my hon. Friend agree that councils ought to have their own local plans? They should be in th...

I absolutely agree that localism and a localist approach is right. The Government’s role is to em...

I am greatly enjoying the hon. Gentleman’s speech. Does he agree that one way to tackle homelessn...

That open-minded, mixed approach is exactly the sort of thing that I would advocate. As we heard ...

In 2016, the Communities and Local Government Committee conducted an inquiry into homelessness an...

Does my hon. Friend agree that single men in particular are given that message—that they are righ...

It is single people in that situation—women as well as men. We had evidence from both at our Sele...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts) and to co-sponsor ...

My hon. Friend is surely right about the importance of a long-term solution and providing more af...

I do, and I am familiar with that fantastic scheme. We need to be more innovative to solve this p...

Does the hon. Lady agree that one area to look at is prefab housing? I know that it got a bad rep...

I think it is worth looking at. I have looked at some modern homes that have been pre-made in fac...

It is a privilege to be the third member of the Public Accounts Committee to speak in today’s deb...

Will my hon. Friend give us a couple of examples from Wales so that we can understand how Wales h...

Yes, I can. In my constituency of Islwyn and in Caerphilly, we have the quality home assurance, w...

May I inform my hon. Friend about a converted warehouse in the middle of an industrial estate in ...

Sadly, that is not an isolated case. There are a number of cases, especially in south-east Englan...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Islwyn (Chris Evans).

There is no inevitabil...

We do not have to go too far from here—just down to Victoria—to see people living rough on the st...

The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. I want specifically to talk about rough sleeping, and he r...

The hon. Gentleman makes an important point about Housing First, in that it is a well-proven appr...

The hon. Lady, with whom I worked on the Homelessness Reduction Act, makes a good point. If she b...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

Of course.

I am very grateful to my hon. Friend. As a student, I studied sociology and I spent some time on ...

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, which has taken up a fair chunk of my remaining tim...

I speak as co-chair of the all-party group for ending homelessness, which I am pleased to co-chai...

Reducing homelessness across the UK has to be a huge priority and I welcome the work the Governme...

It is nothing short of a national disgrace that in 2018 in the United Kingdom, one of the richest...

I thank the hon. Member for Oxford West and Abingdon (Layla Moran) for nominating this important ...

The hon. Member for Cheadle (Mary Robinson) and all those who have spoken so far have made passio...

I seek the right hon. Gentleman’s advice. He was a Minister for five years. Was this his experien...

Yes, it was indeed, and when the Cabinet debated ways to improve value for money, I made the same...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that something could be learned from the close scrutiny the Scott...

I agree with my hon. Friend. One advantage of devolution is that we can experiment with new ways ...

I draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests: I am a ...

It is an honour to take part in the debate initiated by the hon. Member for Oxford West and Abing...

The hon. Lady is making an excellent point. Does she agree that the fact that the Housing Act 199...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that intervention, and I absolutely agree with him. I should...

It is a pleasure to speak in the debate. I have been looking at homelessness and its associated p...

Order. With apologies to the hon. Gentleman who is about to speak for the short notice I am givin...

I am perhaps unnaturally excited about taking part in an estimates debate. When I first picked up...

The hon. Gentleman talks about shortfalls for city deals. Does he recognise that it is the Scotti...

No, I do not, so I will move on, but I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving at least...

I want to whizz through an excellent partnership between YMCA Birmingham and the Government in pr...

Who would choose to spend £845 million of taxpayers’ money on poor, shabby, terrible temporary ac...

The hon. Lady reminds me that I piloted a Bill through this place to enable Transport for London ...

I will do everything I can to encourage the Mayor to do that, but it is not just about the Mayor;...

I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak in this debate on a subject I am so passionate ab...

Never did I think we would have to debate this issue after the work Labour did to reduce homeless...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for York Central (Rachael Maskell) in this important d...

Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the problems is that Spice is categorised as a class B drug...

The right approach by the police will naturally follow the right categorisation, so the clear sug...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bolton West (Chris Green).

Since 2010, rough...

Order. I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman cannot have a “finally”. He may have two words to conc...

Two words? Thursday sees the relaunch of the cross-party group on council housing. All hon. Membe...

It is a pleasure to be able to speak in this debate about a challenge that has been particularly ...

Madam Deputy Speaker, it is unusual and noteworthy for the three Front Benchers all to be female ...

I congratulate the hon. Members for Oxford West and Abingdon (Layla Moran) and for Chichester (Gi...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman did not put his name down to speak at the appropriate time, bu...

I am grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to wind up this important debate this af...

Does the Minister not think it a no-brainer that if successive Governments continue with very hig...

I thank my hon. Friend for sharing his life with us. It is very interesting how we all have diffe...

Will the Minister give way on that point?

No, I won’t.

It is important that in allocating this funding we measure the effectiveness o...

I thank every single Member who contributed to this excellent debate this afternoon. In particula...