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Chris Leslie Excerpts

Monday 24th October 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Jones]

The consultation will be released very shortly, and the evidence review on which this process has been based will be released at the same time.

[Chris Leslie (Nottingham East) (Lab/Co-op)]

The Minister should realise that people living in supported accommodation are among the most vulnerable in society. He has left a whole series of charities and others in the third sector, including Framework in Nottingham, in limbo as a result of the lack of a decision on this issue. He must ensure that the Government put their money where their mouth is and support those vulnerable people. They need help and they need it now.

[Mr Jones]

As I have just said, save for the social rent increases, the quantum of funding will be the same in this regard. We are setting out certainty, and we will certainly be doing that in the consultation, which will be released shortly.