Debates between Baroness Grender and Lord Spicer during the 2015-2017 Parliament

Mon 11th Jan 2016

Rough Sleeping

Debate between Baroness Grender and Lord Spicer
Monday 11th January 2016

(8 years, 4 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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I will repeat the second part. With the Housing and Planning Bill, which sells off social housing but has currently no legal guarantee of replacement, how is it possible to interpret it as anything other than an abandonment of homelessness strategy by this Government and a return to the 1980s when kids coming out of care and troops returning home had no choice but to sleep rough?