Lord Kinnock
Main Page: Lord Kinnock (Labour - Life peer)Homelessness and Rough Sleeping
Lord Kinnock Excerpts
Baroness Hanham
My Lords, I totally agree with my noble friend and I accept that benefits are a requirement. I am afraid that I cannot respond on how they are assessed at the moment and I will write to both noble Lords on that.
Lord Kinnock
My Lords, when the evidence from the National House-Building Council is that the bedroom tax is forcing people out of even low-rent social housing, which is still too expensive for new tenants to take up, could it not be said, fairly, that the Government are, through their policies, making their own contribution to the increase in homelessness and rough sleeping?