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David Cameron tried to defend his Government's record on housing and homelessness today at Prime Minister's Questions - but his figures don't stand up to scrutiny.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn skewered him with a series of tough questions on his forthcoming housing bill.

He asked a question from a member of the public called Rosie, who is stuck living with her parents because she can't afford to rent a home of her own.

The PM largely ignored Rosie's plight, instead reeling off a string of ropey statistics.

But look into the figures and many of Mr Cameron's claims quickly fall apart.

Here's four times David Cameron misled MPs over the Conservative Party's record on housing.

1. "Homelessness is half the peak that it was under Labour"

David Cameron claimed that homelessness is less than half the peak it was under the last Labour Government.

While it's true that homelessness reached its peak at 115,270 in 2004/05 while Labour were in power, that figure dropped dramatically year after year.

That is, until 2010, when David Cameron became Prime Minister.

Since then, it's risen every year but one - and has shot up by 55% since the Tories swept into number 10.

How homelessness has risen again under the Tories Source: DCLG

2. The bar for what counts as being homeless has been raised

(Image: Dan Kitwood)

The homelessness statistics in the early 2000s were undeniably quite high - but all is not quite as it seems.

At the time, single men in overcrowded households were counted among the homelessness figures.

The criteria for homelessness has changed since then, with overcrowding removed from the stats.

The bar for what counts as being homeless has been raised - and it's still going up under the Tories.

3. "In the last five years we've built more council houses than they've built in 13 years"

The Prime Minister claimed (correctly) that the number of council houses built in the last five years was higher than than in 13 years of Labour government.

What he didn't mention is that the Tories are selling off eight social houses for every one new one they build.

As a result the total stock of council houses in England has gone down by 142,589 since David Cameron came to power.

England's council housing stock Source: DCLG

4. And he was talking about council houses, not social housing

(Image: Getty)

Mr Cameron likes to trump up his government's record on building council housing - because it's a nice, easy soundbite.

But the figure is almost meaningless in the full context of social housing in the UK - the bulk of social housing is being built by Housing Associations.

The graph below shows the total number of social houses being built, broken down into council and Housing Associations.

Some 328,000 social houses were built under the last Labour government, compared to 161,000 between 2010 and May this year.

So far, the Tories have been building at roughly the same rate (or slightly slower) than Labour were in the last years of their Government.