Hughes committed to ending rough sleeping by 2024

Shadow housing minister Sarah Owen welcomed a government pledge to “end street homelessness by 2024”. 

However, Owen asked minister Eddie Hughes whether there is cross-government support with reports that secretary of state Michael Gove “is seeking to bring back the Vagrancy Act”, which would “recriminalise” rough sleeping.

Hughes assured the House of Commons that ministers across the government were working to make sure it “genuinely achieves that ambition”.