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Last month, I received the incredibly saddening news from the End Child Poverty coalition that a staggering 32% of the children in my constituency of Mitcham and Morden are living in poverty. They are 8,598 of the 700,000 children across our capital who are living below the poverty line, defined as a minimum acceptable standard of living.

128,000 children spent this Christmas homeless. 9,712 residents are on the housing register in Merton. 9,000 people are sleeping on our streets. Our housing market is broken and Siobhain is calling for change.

In the heart of the busy, working Willow Lane industrial estate in Mitcham are 84 homeless families being temporarily housed in a converted office block. A harrowing example of a country-wide crisis.