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Toby Perkins

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Private Sector Pensions
Monday 22nd January 2018

(6 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Dominic Raab Portrait Dominic Raab
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We are certainly looking at that as part of our wider strategy, which I have already described. I am very happy to write to my hon. Friend about its particular impact on his constituency.

Toby Perkins Portrait Toby Perkins (Chesterfield) (Lab)
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T8. I find the level of rough sleeping in Chesterfield and across the country deeply humiliating as an MP, and it infuriates and disgusts my constituents. When Ministers walk past people living in sleeping bags, do they believe that it is the halving of councils’ Supporting People budget or the £5 billion cut to housing benefit that is most responsible for this national scar on our society?

Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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We have made it an absolute priority in government to help to fight rough sleeping and homelessness. We have committed to halving it by the end of this Parliament and to eliminating it completely by 2027. I share the hon. Gentleman’s concerns, but I hope that he agrees that this issue is not a party political football, and we should all work together across the House to deal with the issue.

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