london outside london piccadilly theater ticket cost 110 pound banner advertise musical annie read hard knock life bryan kevin sleep small tent street among almost 1,000 people sleep rough british capital accord official figure 4,000 streets across country every night bryan 51 last year nearly die pneumonia become homeless personal problems lead drink drug bad use right think lot things say way people everything go cost stuff service care humanity go wide agreement problem become bad last seven years lead criticism conservative government approach accusations austerity policies include change welfare payments house partly blame report week parliament public account committee pac call extent homelessness across england national crisis late official figure hammer home shameful state homelessness england abject failure government approach address misery suffer many thousands families individuals pac chairman meg hillier say charity shelter estimate 300,000 people britain homeless figure rise 13,000 year say one every 200 people england homeless 128,000 children without home christmas official figure show 4,134 rough sleepers count single night autumn 2016 increase 134 percent since 2010 few 1,800. really want gaff place say jimmy bed subway near waterloo station people come town city christmas make money hard us time say jimmy 51 originally hail glasgow scotland human financial cost problem average age death someone rough-sleeping 47 people live street 17 time likely victims violence settle accommodation get point anymore try save money hard say john 19 one small group men live waterloo bridge andrew place live return hang homeless friends bridge recall offer drug first night streets say mate say free trial string escape streets andrew pessimistic john future get streets almost impossible without help say financial impact national audit office parliament spend watchdog say local authorities spend 1.15 billion pound 1.54 billion homelessness service 2015-16. nao head amyas morse say september government recent performance reduce homelessness therefore consider value money government set target halve rough sleep 2022 abolish 2027. last week prime minister theresa may tell lawmakers government would spend 500 million pound tackle homelessness put project tackle rough sleep want see anybody homeless anybody sleep rough streets may say critics say conservatives power since 2010 do little find solutions warn problem could get even bad hear next 10 years current trajectory stay 160,000 people homeless year could increase 25 percent 9,100 people sleep rough could rise 76 percent pac report say meanwhile homeless number years get streets difficult especially battle drug additions one bryan outside piccadilly theatre despite problems say refuse take money children recall one girl recently try give pocket money afterwards sit cry say hard knock life london 's rough sleepers