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Ministers 'fail to pay' for hotels for the newly homeless - while slashing bailout funding to the poorest council areas

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Government has so far failed to pay to accommodate the growing numbers of people who are becoming homeless during the Covid-19 outbreak, the mayor has warned - while slashing the amount of funding to Greater Manchester’s councils in their latest Covid bailout by £12m.

Andy Burnham said the picture for town halls was ‘very worrying’, as ministers appeared to have stopped taking deprivation into account when handing out cash.

That bailout would partly go towards the cost of putting up homeless people in hotels during the crisis, who already number more than 1,300 in Greater Manchester.

But ministers have refused to pay for anyone not known to be homeless before the lockdown, he said, even though more than 170 new rough sleepers have been

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