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The former director of the Rough Sleepers Unit under Tony Blair says the numbers of people sleeping on the streets has "gone up and up since 2010" when she was in office.

Dame Louise Casey was commenting on a story which claims that a twenty eight million pound homelessness fund announced in the autumn budget has yet to be spent.

Dame Casey told Radio 4's World at One that she welcomed the government's initiative of helping the homeless by putting "more beds in to the system when it is freezing cold". But she said "chucking them out again in the morning... was missing an opportunity to get more people into the system" for longer term help.

(Photo: Homeless man in the snow begging for money Credit: Reuters)