of poor quality

“They’re staying in temporary accommodation of poor quality, hotels for example. Yet the councils say they are not able to build houses because the money is going the wrong direction.”

"Some of the medicines provided by the hospitals are of poor quality, not original. They are not effective. Hence we have to buy medicines from outside," she said.

"Leaders, staff and prisoners were over-reliant on keeping prisoners apart rather than addressing underlying causes of violence. Investigations into incidents were often delayed and sometimes of poor quality," it said.

After Mr Gove first announced he would be pursuing changes to planning law, the Local Government Association warned that offices, shops and barns were not always suitable for housing, and could result in the creation of poor quality homes.

It found that private rentals "contribute disproportionately to both the total number of poor quality homes and the costs that poor housing causes to the NHS".