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Street Homelessness

Debate between James Gray and Afzal Khan
Tuesday 24th April 2018

(6 years, 6 months ago)

Westminster Hall
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Afzal Khan Portrait Afzal Khan (Manchester, Gorton) (Lab)
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I, too, feel that those are exactly the problems, so does my hon. Friend agree that local authorities up and down the country face these difficulties? In my own city of Manchester in 2010, we had only seven people in this situation, but in 2017 the number was 94. Manchester City Council is giving £3 million to tackle homelessness, but it is also fighting the tide of crippling cuts to local authority budgets, an historical housing crisis and punitive welfare reform—

James Gray Portrait James Gray (in the Chair)
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Order. Interventions must be brief.

Afzal Khan Portrait Afzal Khan
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So the Government need to do more.

James Gray Portrait James Gray (in the Chair)
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I call Melanie Onn.