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HANSARD National Plan to End HomelessnessI would like to make a statement to the House about the publication of our national plan to end homelessness. The strategy we have published today, I want to say from the outset,…11 Dec 2025HANSARD National Plan to End HomelessnessI thank the Chair of the Select Committee for her words and for her long-standing commitment to tackling homelessness in the capital and right across the country. She is right to…11 Dec 2025HANSARD National Plan to End HomelessnessI thank the hon. Gentleman for welcoming the strategy and for joining the cross-party support for our objectives. It is important that we make it clear where we have agreement…11 Dec 2025HANSARD National Plan to End HomelessnessMy hon. Friend knows that I am a fan of Banbury. I am hoping to get there before too long, and would be most grateful to meet that organisation; it sounds like it is doing…11 Dec 2025HANSARD National Plan to End HomelessnessAs part of the strategy, I have worked closely with my colleagues in the Home Office to support their priorities, which are to secure our borders, deal with the dreadful…11 Dec 2025HANSARD National Plan to End HomelessnessI will join my right hon. Friend in commending Oxford city council’s plans. That is exactly the sort of action that this strategy envisages. We must get kids out of totally…11 Dec 2025HANSARD National Plan to End HomelessnessI will have more to say about funding for local authorities specifically in the coming days. As the hon. Member will know, we are expecting the provisional statement for local…11 Dec 2025HANSARD National Plan to End HomelessnessI thank my hon. Friend for her question, which is a really important one. She will know that the Department for Education is introducing the unique identifier, which is at the…11 Dec 2025HANSARD National Plan to End HomelessnessI thank the hon. Lady for her input into the strategy on behalf of her constituents. I would be happy to arrange a meeting.11 Dec 2025HANSARD National Plan to End HomelessnessI thank my hon. Friend for his question. He demonstrates his expertise, both from his life experience—and the House is so much the better for having people in it today who know…11 Dec 2025HANSARD National Plan to End HomelessnessI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question, and through him I would like to give my own thanks to the organisations in his constituency that he just mentioned, which I am sure…11 Dec 2025HANSARD National Plan to End HomelessnessI thank my hon. Friend for his apposite question. There is extra money for supported housing in the strategy, and we will be monitoring the success of that. There is also money…11 Dec 2025HANSARD National Plan to End HomelessnessI think I have responded a number of times on our ambitions for social housing and mixed communities. On section 21, the right hon. Member will have noted that we are investing…11 Dec 2025HANSARD National Plan to End HomelessnessHousing associations will have heard the comments that my hon. Friend has made. I am sure that they all aspire to treat their residents with the utmost respect and care, but they…11 Dec 2025HANSARD National Plan to End HomelessnessI thank the hon. Gentleman for his work over so many years on this issue. He mentions a number of legislative vehicles, some of which have already made a change and some of which…11 Dec 2025HANSARD National Plan to End HomelessnessI thank my hon. Friend for that contribution. Children who are stuck in inappropriate B&Bs should know that they have a champion in this House, they should know that there is…11 Dec 2025HANSARD National Plan to End HomelessnessI agree with my hon. Friend. The fact that I and the ministerial team who produced this report agree with him can be evidenced by the foreword written by the people who did not…11 Dec 2025HANSARD National Plan to End HomelessnessMy hon. Friend makes an important point about the use of taxpayers’ money. As she will have heard me say in previous responses, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury is leading some…11 Dec 2025HANSARD National Plan to End HomelessnessMy hon. Friend makes his case well. If he would care to send me some details of the case, I will of course meet him.11 Dec 2025HANSARD National Plan to End HomelessnessMy hon. Friend is of course right. The great city of Edinburgh deserves a lot better in so many ways, and I support everything he said. I long for the day when we can have a…11 Dec 2025