Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jason McCartney and Eddie Hughes

Monday 7th March 2022 Commons Chamber

[Eddie Hughes]

To a degree, I understand part of the hon. Lady’s point. It is clearly difficult to capture that information, which is why we trust local councils and charities to do it. We have the figures validated by Homeless Link. The hon. Lady may have missed the fact that we are publishing more data so that it will be available monthly and working with local councils to make sure that that data is used appropriately to reduce the number of rough sleepers. I look forward to working with her to that end.

[Jason McCartney (Colne Valley) (Con)]

5. What assessment he has made of the impact of the proposals in the levelling-up White Paper on regional inequality in the UK.