Rushanara Ali
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(11 years, 5 months ago)
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The Prime Minister
My hon. Friend makes an important point, and he is quite right to have stood up for his constituents in the way that he did. I would like to convene a meeting with MOD Ministers so that I can get back to him with the very best answer about the action we can take to stop these problems happening in the future.
Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green and Bow) (Lab)
The number of homeless families living in temporary accommodation rose by 5,000 in the last year. Will the Prime Minister explain why?
The Prime Minister
We need to build more houses in our country, and that is exactly what the Government are doing. We are building more social houses and more private houses, and we are reforming housing benefit so that we can better use the money. The question now is for the Opposition. They spent weeks and weeks complaining about the removal of the spare room subsidy. I do not know whether anyone else has noticed: they do not ask questions about it any more. Could that possibly be because they have not got a clue about whether they would restore it?