Theresa May has bowed out with her final Prime Minister’s Questions – and her record on prevention and homelessness was high on the agenda.
The outgoing Prime Minister, who will be replaced by Boris Johnson later today, was quizzed by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on how her government has tackle rough sleeping.
May insisted that she was “Pleased to say that we have seen rough sleeping going down in those areas where this government has taken action” as well as referring to targets of halving rough sleeping in 2022 and ending it by 2027.
In opposition, Corbyn, insisted he “doesn’t know where the Prime Minister gets her figures from on rough sleeping”.
Theresa May says at #PMQs that rough sleeping went down last year. In 2018, 4,677 people were estimated to be sleeping rough in England on a single night, down by 2% from the 2017 total, but up by 165% since 2010. These estimates are very uncertain though. https://t.co/6RqCKM6V7N
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He had earlier listed a number of issues that have risen in May’s premiership, including homelessness, in conjunction with chants of “up” from his party.