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Rough sleeping count masks real scale of the problem

as PM gives Ministers in eight Government departments responsibility for homeless Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today removed the mask…

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021) and The Rt Hon Grant Shapps
• Published: 16 June 2010

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• as PM gives Ministers in eight Government departments responsibility for homeless

Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today removed the mask on the true scale of the problem of rough sleeping, with plans to overhaul the flawed system for measuring homele

Published 16 June 2010