§ Mr. Woodhouseasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will offer incentives to local authorities in areas where homelessness is a severe problem to prepare emergency plans for the immediate erection of prefabricated houses to be put at the disposal of their social services departments.
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§ Mr. ChannonI do not think that such an incentive would be appropriate for a form of provision which is justified only in an exceptional case. Ministers will shortly be issuing a joint circular setting out a new approach and a range of measures designed to see that more is done to prevent and relieve homelessness.