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Mr. George Howarth
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is his estimate of the number of homeless people who will be sleeping rough this Christmas.
Mr. Michael Spicer
[holding answer 26 November 1990]: We do not make forecasts of the number of people who may be sleeping rough at any point in the future. We have recently announced an increase of £80 million in our package of measures to help such people.