The homelessness minister has pledged to end the use of bed and breakfasts as emergency housing, even as new figures show that the country’s homelessness problem has worsened since Labour came into government.

Alison McGovern said she would consider it a personal failing if people were still being placed in B&Bs by the end of this parliament as she launched the government’s three-year homelessness strategy.

But despite promises to reduce the use of temporary accommodation and halve the number of people sleeping rough, data from Shelter shows homelessness has jumped 8% over the past year.

McGovern told the Guardian: “We want to end the use of B&Bs, apart from in a really dire emergency situation. We want to end the use of B&Bs by the end of the parliament.

“It will take people having

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