UK prime minister to ask councils for plans to house rough-sleeping veterans

The Prime Minister's Office said Andy Burnham will write to councils in England on Armistice Day asking them to develop "a specific plan to offer accommodation to any veterans sleeping rough". It said £8.7 million is being allocated to eight organisations as part of the Reducing Veteran Homelessness programme. Burnham said: "No one who has served our country should be left to sleep rough on our streets."